Re: How do I mount VM image to the host?

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Den 2015-08-05 kl. 18:12, skrev Matthew Miller:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 11:55:27AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>>> Take a look at http://libguestfs.org/ and the "guestfish" tool for
>>> poking inside VM images. If you need to actually mount it,
>>> "guestmount".
>> That works best when the guest isn't running.
> 
> Yes, absolutely — I just assumed that with "VM image". But maybe that
> was a wrong assumption. :) If the machine is running, it's best to
> think of it as not an image but just another machine on the network.
> 
>> If you want running access, you need to run NFS in the guest
>> and mount the guest filesystem on the host via networking
>> (or if it is a windows guest, you need to share the filesystems
>> and mount them via smb on the host).
> 
> +1. Or, possibly, go the other way around, and mount a host filesystem
> into the guest, depending on what you want/need. You can also use
> 9p_virtio <http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/9p_virtio>.
> 

Yes, this seems to be the tool I am looking for. I will test it.

Thank you!
-- 
/Regards

Jon Ingason

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