On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 06:07:20PM +0200, Roland Giesler wrote: > Is there no way in which one can access the host's filesystem from within a > guest OS. > > Libvirt's virt-manager GUI seems to indicate that there is, by virtue of > the FileSystem Passthrough option as shown below > > [image: Inline image 1] > > The scenario I typically have is a Linux Server on a ext4 file system, with > a Windows 7 Guest OS running a KVM machine. > > No matter what combination of options I choose, I can never "mount" the > host drive in Windows to be able to transfer files from one to the other. > Both VMWare Player and Virtualbox have this capability, yet I find this > sorely lacking in libvirt/virt-manager. What do I need to do to make this > work? There is something known as "virtio-9p" which is the 9p filesystem running over virtio betweeen host & guest. The problem is there are only guest drivers for Linux. Windows/BSD/etc all out of luck. The only other option is to setup a private, isolated network between host & guest and then run NFS or Samba or something similar. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
