[libvirt-users] Developing on host machine, running code on guest VM

Brad Barrows bradleyb1537 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 6 18:41:35 UTC 2013


Ill look into that! Thank you so much!


On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 03/06/2013 11:02 AM, Brad Barrows wrote:
> > Currently I am developing my projects on my host laptop and am sharing my
> > development folder with my Guest VMs via NFS. This works however it is
> > somewhat a hassle do to UID/GID issues..
> >
> > I was wondering if there was something similar to Shared Drives in
> > VirtualBox?
>
> We do have 9p filesystem passthrough, if your guest understands plan9
> filesystems:
> http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsFilesystems
> This appears to be the closest to a VirtualBox shared drive.
>
> >
> > Is NFS the best way to go about this kind of development or is there
> > another feature I am missing?
>
> While 9p is probably the slickest approach, NFS is probably the most
> universally supported.  There are also other shared filesystems like
> glusterfs that might be easier to manage than NFS.  But yeah, the
> concept of having the guest share a portion of the filesystem living in
> the host is still a topic for current development efforts.
>
> --
> Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
>
>


-- 
Brad Barrows
bbarrows at calpoly.edu
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