Re: [Qemu-devel] Win98: how to exchange data with Linux

["Jim C. Brown" <jbrown106@phreaker.net>]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 07:58:19PM +0200, Adrian Smarzewski wrote:
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> John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
> | Yes, it is a non-workable idea to try to share a filesystem between two
> | running OSes.
> 
> I don't agree because samba for example is the application that does it.
> 
> - - change samba serwer to little server builded-in into qemu
> - - change smb windows client to filesystem driver communicating with our
> server
> - - change tcp protocol to hidden ioports communication between windows
> driver and qemu little-server (like vmware-tools communication protocol)
> 
> and it will be the thing that I'm talking about.
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> Pozdrowienia
> Adrian Smarzewski

You don't need the second step,

> - - change smb windows client to filesystem driver communicating with our
> server

but the rest is workable. VMware actually does this, iirc. It would be easier
to support NFS as the special protocol and use an open-source NFS client for
Windows tho.
Then again, do we really need full filesystem access? It would be simpler for
qemu to emulate an ftp server on the guest side (use "-ftp" option to turn
the server on, and "-ftpdir <dir>" to tell qemu where it should serve from).

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