Re: [libvirt-users] XML syntax for "dir" attribute when making Host directory available to Windows guest

From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Cameron Smith" <cameron.smith(a)engco.co.mz&gt; Cc: libvirt-users(a)redhat.com Sent: Wednesday, 21 March, 2012 12:00:08 PM Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] XML syntax for "dir" attribute when making Host directory available to Windows guest On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:32:08AM +0200, Cameron Smith wrote: > Hi, I have the following setup: > Host: Ubuntu 10.04 > Guest: Windows 2008 R2 > Kernel: 2.6.32-40-generic > virt-inst: 0.500.1-2ubuntu6.2 > qemu-kvm: 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.18 > > All is working, however I would now like to share a given directory > on the host with the guest. Using the "virsh edit" command I > have prepared the following XML configuration snippet: > <filesystem type='mount'> > <source dir='/home/cameron/zip/hla'/> > <target dir='/mnt/hla'/> > </filesystem> > > My problem is the "target" element - what value should I use in the > "dir" attribute, given that Windows drive paths do not follow Unix > format (e.g. "F:\" versus "/mnt/hla"). For virtio-9p the target is not actually a directory path, but a "mount tag". The guest OS itself is responsible for deciding where to mount it. This is all academic for you though, since AFAIK, there is no virtio-9p driver available for Windows. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- | http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- | http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- | http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- | http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|