Qemu : best way to share beetween host & guest OSes ?

kozaki · 2006-10-02 22:41:41

How do you qemu users do share content between qemu guest OS and arch linux ?
I've got wiwi installed & running allright in a Qemu image with kqemu running fine (thanks to the packager --brain0? )
That's fine but still is pretty useless until I can read (& write) from the guest OS to some place accessible from Arch like directory, partition, usb device or even FTP

fsimage (Qemu's FAQ says it's the best solution when using fat), user mode networking SMB (like in this old post), FTP, USB key... what was your choice (with pro/con if available) ?

Dusty · 2006-10-02 23:09:12

Haven't tried it on Arch, but I've successfully used ssh to communicate between the guest and host. When inside the guest, if the network is configured properly (google), you can use scp or sftp to copy stuff to the host OS. Just set up sshd on the host, and use the host's IP.

Dusty

kozaki · 2006-10-02 23:25:39

That seems nice to me Dusty

Yet I still look forward for a newby usable configuration though, especially collegues of mine I know run away as soon as they hear "typing command"

Errr... as soon as network (qemu / guest OS) & ssh are configured then it should be possible to use file explorer to transparently scp files in a pure GUI ?

Dusty · 2006-10-03 00:13:44

kozaki wrote:

Errr... as soon as network (qemu / guest OS) & ssh are configured then it should be possible to use file explorer to transparently scp files in a pure GUI ?

I don't think so, but look into sshfs, as well as gui sftp programs.

Dusty

kozaki · 2006-10-12 22:42:11

I happend to forgot my lighhttp server was running last time I launched win2k with qemu.
Launched MSIE then typed 10.0.2.2 and I falled on my http server's page... Same stuff for others local IPs how! that's nice, especially since it does not show anything when I launch Samba (qemu put samba's smbserver on 10.0.2.4 BTW, wiki says 10.0.2.2).

Anyway it was a question of 2 minutes to access the directory I wanted from within qemu+win2k / http server and get what I had in that directory into win2k, like progs etc.

I guess FTP server would work too, that would work from/to both directions i.e. host<-->guest...

What sucks is that I still cannot use my lightscribe drive from within qemu, as it virtualize the drive as "Qemu CDROM" !

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#1 2006-10-02 22:41:41

Qemu : best way to share beetween host & guest OSes ?

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