Re: [Qemu-devel] virtual FTP/WebDAV (was: windows xp under pclinuxos 2005)

[Jan Marten Simons <marten@xtal.rwth-aachen.de>]

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.

With regards,
Jan

Rene Horn wrote:
> I wrote up a howto on this:
> http://qemu.dad-answers.com/viewtopic.php?t=1963
>
> I'm not sure if that will provide exactly what the OP was looking for, 
> but it should be a step in the right direction.
>
> Rene
>
>     I was asking for an integrated virtual FTP server (about 14 months
>     ago).
>     But so far nobody came up with a patch to do this.
>     Here's the original eMail:
>     http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2005-06/msg00025.html
>
>     It spawned a quite big thread thread back then
>     (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2005-06/threads.html#00025
>     <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2005-06/threads.html#00025>).
>     I'd still like to see this feature in qemu, as it would be very useful
>     in my opinion.
>
>     With regards,
>     Jan
>