On Saturday 15 March 2008 08:57:47 Sujit Sanjeev wrote: > Hi Rusty, > > I was wondering what are the options available for the host to be able to > access files within the > guest's disk image. (which we give as the 'rootfile=' option while booting > the guest with lguest.) > > Basically, if the guest passes a file name/path to the host, the host > should be able to perform > read/write operations on it, or perform calculations such as check sum on > the file. > (which is within the guest's disk image file) > > Could you please throw some light on it?
The normal solution is to loopback mount the guest disk file before loading the guest. I believe there have also been experiments with allowing the guest to access normal host files using 9p, but I don't know any details. Cheers, Rusty. _______________________________________________ Lguest mailing list [email protected] https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/lguest
