It is possible to create such a Shelve CL.

To do this, it is necessary to:

• Remove ("Mark for delete"):
  • //SOME/P4/PATH/scripts/qemu
• Create a symlink with the same name.
• Add this new symlink to the Shelve CL ("Mark for Add...").
• "Shelve..." the removed and newly added files/symlink.

However, an error will occur when unshelving this Shelve CL:

In other words, Perforce is somewhat limited in this regard.