[Qemu-devel] question on samba/linux_guest

[Qemu-devel] question on samba/linux_guest

[Christian MICHON]

Hi list,

I know for sure "-smb" option is meant for using samba inside a Windows guest
inside a linux host.

I would like to do the opposite: having a Windows host and a properly configured
samba inside a linux guest, use windows explorer to browse specific disk areas
of the linux guest.

I can already do this using vmplayer in host-only network mode, similar to the
network user mode over slirp. The problem is that I do not know what IP address
I should use when mapping the disk inside windows host.

Indeed, the IP address inside the qemu guest is something like 10.0.2.15, but
I cannot access it from XP. I tried to fiddle with "-redir" options, but it
refuses to redirect port 445 (though I'm admin on XP).

Has anyone managed this yet ? If so, please share the command lines.
It must be possible, but maybe not easy.

Just a precision: I want to use the slirp mode only, not the tap-win32 stuff.
Thanks in advance
-- 
Christian

[Qemu-devel] Re: question on samba/linux_guest

[Christian MICHON]

it was silly of me to discard the qemu-tap stuff actually... Unless I use
tunneling, I cannot access the guest from the windows host directly
using an IP address. And windows refuses to mount something like
\\10.0.2.16:5555\

The problem disappears if I use tap-win32...

So now I can do some linux specific stuff inside the guest (kernel compilation)
and get the result out of the guest filesystem using samba (launch
a parallel session of qemu on windows using the freshly compiled kernel)

If someone one day finds a way to do it using slirp/user mode, I'm
still interested... :)

On 11/30/06, Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to do the opposite: having a Windows host and a properly configured
> samba inside a linux guest, use windows explorer to browse specific disk areas
> of the linux guest.
>
> I can already do this using vmplayer in host-only network mode, similar to the
> network user mode over slirp. The problem is that I do not know what IP address
> I should use when mapping the disk inside windows host.
>
> Indeed, the IP address inside the qemu guest is something like 10.0.2.15, but
> I cannot access it from XP. I tried to fiddle with "-redir" options, but it
> refuses to redirect port 445 (though I'm admin on XP).
>
> Has anyone managed this yet ? If so, please share the command lines.
> It must be possible, but maybe not easy.
>
> Just a precision: I want to use the slirp mode only, not the tap-win32 stuff.
> Thanks in advance

-- 
Christian