On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 06:07:20PM +0200, Roland Giesler wrote:

Is there no way in which one can access the host's filesystem from within a guest OS.

Libvirt's virt-manager GUI seems to indicate that there is, by virtue of the FileSystem Passthrough option as shown below

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The scenario I typically have is a Linux Server on a ext4 file system, with a Windows 7 Guest OS running a KVM machine.

No matter what combination of options I choose, I can never "mount" the host drive in Windows to be able to transfer files from one to the other. Both VMWare Player and Virtualbox have this capability, yet I find this sorely lacking in libvirt/virt-manager. What do I need to do to make this work?

There is something known as "virtio-9p" which is the 9p filesystem running over virtio betweeen host & guest. The problem is there are only guest drivers for Linux. Windows/BSD/etc all out of luck. The only other option is to setup a private, isolated network between host & guest and then run NFS or Samba or something similar. 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 :|