From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C33QF-0001hB-8V for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 22:03:27 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1C33QD-0001fq-Bp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 22:03:26 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C33QD-0001fi-87 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 22:03:25 -0400 Received: from [203.125.41.35] (helo=vista.netmemetic.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C33Kx-0004Li-CG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 21:57:59 -0400 Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 09:57:46 +0800 From: Ng Pheng Siong Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Feature request: integrated smb server? Message-ID: <20040903015746.GA848@vista.netmemetic.com> References: <1094169680.12595.202.camel@aragorn> <7C0FE792-FD47-11D8-9128-000393C4FDC6@triplecatproductions.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7C0FE792-FD47-11D8-9128-000393C4FDC6@triplecatproductions.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 06:20:47PM -0700, David E. Still wrote: > My "need" is for the guest OS to be able to read/write files in a > folder on the host OS. FTP can do it, but smb would be "easier" in the > sense that the guest would see it as just another mounted disk. I run Samba on my FreeBSD host and the Win98 guest mounts its shares. Works fine. I've always used user-mode networking, never tried tun/tap. > As I said, I run Mandrake 10.0 on my home computer. I haven't had any > Windows partitions for years, but I still like to fire up an > occassional game using using WINE (either plain or Transgaming's > Cedega/WineX). Ah, so you want to mount the guest's shares from your host, to run your game's installer under WINE directly from the guest's disk? You can try copying the game installer over from the guest to the host, and run the installer directly on the host, instead. -- Ng Pheng Siong http://firewall.rulemaker.net -+- Cisco PIX & Netscreen Config Version Control http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps -+- M2Crypto, ZServerSSL for Zope, Blog