[libvirt] Mounting a bare-metal folder as a drive

Neil Aggarwal neil at JAMMConsulting.com
Wed Nov 11 20:35:56 UTC 2009


Adam:
 
> I'm not looking to attach a new disk or a block deivice, this is a folder
that is being mounted 
> and used by the bare metal system that I'd like to pass into the VM.  I'm
thinking Samba may 
> be the way to go, although there is a fair amount of overhead doing that.


So, you want to share a folder between the host and the guest and have both
be able to use it?  
 
I think you are right, Samba if the guest is Windows and NFS if the guest is
Linux.
 
    Neil



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