creating a virtual environment on a filesystem without symlink-support fails even with --copies

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Issue

i am new to python venv, so please forgive me if i open the issue on a wrong place or missunderstood something.

as i am on a virtualmachine which is hosted on a windows system where i share the repository i am working in with the hsot system i

Environment

Provide at least:

• OS: alpine 3.19
• pip list of the host python where virtualenv is installed:

 pip list
Package                   Version
------------------------- --------
altgraph                  0.17.3
ansible                   8.6.1
ansible-compat            3.0.2
ansible-core              2.16.1
argcomplete               3.1.1
arrow                     1.2.3
attrs                     23.1.0
bcrypt                    4.1.1
binaryornot               0.4.4
certifi                   2023.5.7
cffi                      1.16.0
chardet                   5.1.0
charset-normalizer        3.1.0
click                     8.1.3
click-help-colors         0.9.1
cookiecutter              2.1.1
cryptography              41.0.7
distlib                   0.3.7
distro                    1.8.0
docker                    6.1.2
enrich                    1.2.7
filelock                  3.12.4
hcloud                    2.2.1
idna                      3.4
iniconfig                 1.1.1
Jinja2                    3.1.4
jinja2-time               0.2.0
jmespath                  1.0.1
jsonschema                4.17.3
markdown-it-py            2.2.0
MarkupSafe                2.1.3
mdurl                     0.1.2
molecule                  5.0.1
molecule-docker           2.1.0
molecule-podman           2.0.3
mypy                      1.6.1
mypy-extensions           1.0.0
netaddr                   0.9.0
packaging                 23.2
paramiko                  3.4.0
pip                       23.3.1
platformdirs              4.0.0
pluggy                    1.0.0
py                        1.11.0
pycparser                 2.21
Pygments                  2.15.1
pyinstaller               5.11.0
pyinstaller-hooks-contrib 2023.3
PyNaCl                    1.5.0
pyparsing                 3.1.1
pyroute2                  0.7.9
pyrsistent                0.19.3
pytest                    7.4.3
pytest-html               3.2.0
pytest-metadata           3.0.0
pytest-molecule           2.0.0
pytest-testinfra          8.1.0
python-dateutil           2.8.2
python-slugify            8.0.1
PyYAML                    6.0.1
redis                     4.5.5
requests                  2.30.0
resolvelib                1.0.1
rich                      13.3.5
ruamel.yaml               0.17.26
ruamel.yaml.clib          0.2.7
selinux                   0.3.0
setuptools                70.3.0
six                       1.16.0
subprocess-tee            0.4.1
takeltest                 0.8.0
text-unidecode            1.3
typing_extensions         4.8.0
urllib3                   2.0.2
virtualenv                20.24.6
websocket-client          1.5.1

Output of the virtual environment creation

python -m venv venv2--copies
Error: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: 'lib' -> '/ansible/venv/lib64'

Make sure to run the creation with -vvv --with-traceback:

python -m venv venv -vvv --with-traceback
usage: venv [-h] [--system-site-packages] [--symlinks | --copies] [--clear] [--upgrade] [--without-pip]
            [--prompt PROMPT] [--upgrade-deps]
            ENV_DIR [ENV_DIR ...]
venv: error: unrecognized arguments: -vvv --with-traceback

my workaround is to manually specify a path an the system where symlinking is possible

maybe related to #2578