VMware file movement - how?

[Luis]

On 8/25/06, Duncan Lithgow <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> wrote:
> I should have said I'm using VMware server.
>
> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 13:44 +0100, alexandermimix wrote:
> > add the partitions / discs you wish to be able to access from your host
> > computer to your Virtual machine and make them persistant under options
> I tried this one. I had to start VMware as root to get access to the
> partitions. And then I couldn't start VMware as user. Also even as root
> I couldn't find the two vfat partitions I had given access to. They're
> not in 'My Computer', and don't show up in the XP disc management app.
> The only place I can see a reference to what I did is under 'Virtual
> Machine Settings > Hardware'. Under Hard Disk there I can see a list of
> partitions, the two I marked earlier are shown as R/W.
>
> Any ideas what's going on?
>
> On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 11:38 +0800, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
> > You can share a folder as a samba share and browse it in Network
> > Neighborhood.
> That is a bit of an overkill I think. I'm sure it works, but I shouldn't
> need that level of complexity (I hope).
>
> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 21:24 +0930, Samps wrote:
> > Look under 'settings' in your VM window (Ctrl+D), it's on the options tab.
> > Might be that you have to creat a shared host folder first, but you'll find
> > out
> I didn't find out. I can't find any reference anywhere to shared folders. Can someone give some more specific instructions?

in vmware shared folders are implemented using samba (smb/cifs
protocol i should say). so, it might be the same as you simply
installing samba and enabling networking for your vm. i like doing
things the other way around, i add my shares to /etc/exports on my
host box (which runs Linux of course) and mount the share from my
guests as:

mount -t nfs4 aa.bb.cc.dd:/ /mnt

NFS has been around since the dawn of ages, and NFS4 is just a lot better.

Just to give you an idea of what you would need:

Host computer (or any system you want to share from):
# say Host IP is 10.0.0.1
$>sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server
$>cat /etc/exports
/home/Shared        *(rw,sync,fsid=0,crossmnt)
$>sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart

Guest host (or any other client):
$> sudo mount -t nfs4 10.0.0.1:/ /mnt

done. Could not be easier.

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