From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GFERO-0005M8-8Z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:24:02 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GFERJ-0005Ec-Ft for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:24:01 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GFERJ-0005EJ-4Q for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:23:57 -0400 Received: from [64.233.166.181] (helo=py-out-1112.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GFEYk-0006Wf-9u for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:31:38 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id x31so2384275pye for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtual FTP/WebDAV (was: windows xp under pclinuxos 2005) From: Andrew Barr In-Reply-To: <44E9F8B9.1070006@xtal.rwth-aachen.de> References: <20060820181501.11663156090@pc42.xtal.rwth-aachen.de> <44E9D35F.4080104@xtal.rwth-aachen.de> <44E9F8B9.1070006@xtal.rwth-aachen.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:23:42 -0400 Message-Id: <1156184622.31114.0.camel@r51.oakcourt.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jan Marten Simons Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 20:17 +0200, Jan Marten Simons wrote: > Hi Rene, > > Your HowTo is quite nice and might be enough for most users, but it > depends on modifying the host-system, which needs admin/root privileges. > An internal virtual FTP server which serves a directory of the host > might be slower, but it would not need any changes on the host side. > (Think about portable OS in qemu on USB/Flash-Media, which could easily > export e.g. C:\Xchange or ~/xchange into a virtual FTP/WebDAV, which can > be used for fileexchange from allmost any guest.) That way you can build > a very portable sandbox, which can be run from various host systems. Hi, is there any reason SMB won't work for your needs? (command line option -smb ) -- Andrew Barr | http://www.oakcourt.dyndns.org/~andrew/ All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. -- IBM maintenance manual (1925)