Re: [9fans] vmware shared folders

[erik quanstrom]

On Sun Aug 28 01:58:51 PDT 2016, 9...@9netics.com wrote:
> > I also have the VMware code for plan9 from russ. he felt it is not enough 
> > time had passed to release it. VMware has changed over the years and the 
> > plan9 code needs to be updated.
> 
> a lot of the secret sauce code seems to be available now (LGPL license):
> 
> https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/tree/master/open-vm-tools

just in time for vmware to be less relevant.  :-)

- erik

Re: [9fans] vmware shared folders

[Skip Tavakkolian]

> * boxB doesn't see no boxA shared folders.

i would start there.  once it's fixed, it will most likely fix the
problem on plan9 side too.

> Coud the one guilty be the Win7-64 on BoxA ?

my motto is: when in doubt, blame windows; so probably yes.

Re: [9fans] vmware shared folders

[Adriano Verardo]

Skip Tavakkolian wrote:


are you able to ping guest-to-host and host-to-guest? is windows firewall 
turned on?

ping ok in both directions, firewall off

boxA is Win7-64, the Plan9 distro in the VM (on boxA) is from Bell, 
downloaded a few days ago.


I don't know if there could be a relationship, but in the boxA (Win7-64) 
+ boxB (Win7-32) workgroup

I configured just now to test:
* boxA opens all boxB shared folders as usual
* boxB doesn't see no boxA shared folders.
Both machines are on my desk, same config procedure step by step.

Coud the one guilty be the Win7-64 on BoxA ?

I'll install the same VMware with the same Plan9 distro on a Win7-32 to 
verify this.


adriano.

Re: [9fans] vmware shared folders

[Steve Simon]

have you done the hack to the registry described in the code manual page.

Microsoft keep moving the goalposts and my memory fades, but I use cifs to win7 
daily at work. I will look at the config but I am on holiday for a week.

I also have the VMware code for plan9 from russ. he felt it is not enough time 
had passed to release it. VMware has changed over the years and the plan9 code 
needs to be updated.

Steve


> On 27 Aug 2016, at 05:58, Adriano Verardo  wrote:
> 
> Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
>> from what I've read, it seem like the VMWare workstation should honor the 
>> old API's. 'aux/vmwarefs -?' might give enough info to run it.
>> cifs should also work. in your original post it wasn't obvious that both 
>> machines are windows; i assumed one was a unix box with no cifs available.
> sorry, my mistake
>> 
>> when you run cifs with debug flags on, what does it say when it tries to 
>> mount the local host?
> 
> 
> # cifs -d boxA -s xyz -m /n/xyz boxA p9w7 (p9w7 is declared shared in 
> Win7 and in  VMware too)
> cifsdial: host=boxA called=boxA sysname=v9Bell
> ... and nothing more
> 
> adriano

Re: [9fans] vmware shared folders

[Skip Tavakkolian]

from what I've read, it seem like the VMWare workstation should honor the
old API's. 'aux/vmwarefs -?' might give enough info to run it.
cifs should also work. in your original post it wasn't obvious that both
machines are windows; i assumed one was a unix box with no cifs available.

when you run cifs with debug flags on, what does it say when it tries to
mount the local host?


On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 9:01 PM Adriano Verardo 
wrote:

> Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
> > The 386 binaries for aux/vmwarefs and aux/isvmware, etc.  are still
> > available but the corresponding sources are gone. You could try those.
> I have them but no their doc. Is it available ?
>
>NDA == Non Disclosure Agreement ?
> >
> > You could run a 9p based server like u9fs ..
> What's its role ? Shouldn't the native Win7 file system be readable by a
> cifs of the guest Plan9 ?
>
> adriano
>
>
>

Re: [9fans] vmware shared folders

[Adriano Verardo]

Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
The 386 binaries for aux/vmwarefs and aux/isvmware, etc.  are still 
available but the corresponding sources are gone. You could try those.

I have them but no their doc. Is it available ?

  NDA == Non Disclosure Agreement ?


You could run a 9p based server like u9fs ..
What's its role ? Shouldn't the native Win7 file system be readable by a 
cifs of the guest Plan9 ?


adriano

Re: [9fans] vmware shared folders

[Adriano Verardo]

Jadon Bennett wrote:

On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 03:48:25AM +0200, Adriano Verardo wrote:

Currently I send files from Plan9/VMware to a remote Win7 box using cifs.
I would like to store directly on the local box.

I don't know much about VMWare, but are you able to run samba or similar
on your host machine, and use cifs with that instead of the Windows box?



Now I have 2 boxes.
A is a Win7 that runs VMware. Plan9 runs in the VMware VM.
B is a Win7 I use to store Plan9 files through cifs.
My goal is to do all the job on A because sometimes I've no net to 
connect to.


I tried to cifs a "normal" shared folder of A from Plan9, say as if 
Plan9 were on another box.
I think it should be possible, but I'm not sure and in any case I could 
not make it work.


Reading the VMware doc I see that's possible to define shared folders 
"in the VM" and
on internet there are examples on how to access them from a Linux 
running in the VM.


So I configured a VM shared folder X and looked in /mnt /n /srv hoping 
to find a reference

to X.

adriano

Re: [9fans] vmware shared folders

[Skip Tavakkolian]

The 386 binaries for aux/vmwarefs and aux/isvmware, etc.  are still
available but the corresponding sources are gone. You could try those.   My
vague recollection is that Russ wrote vmwarefs (and other aux/vmware*)
using a guest API (probably VMCI?) that required an NDA, which might be why
the sources aren't there.

You could run a 9p based server like u9fs (/sys/src/cmd/unix/u9fs) on the
local box and import it into Plan 9 guest. If you're using drawterm to
connect to the Plan 9 guest from the host, your local filesystem on the
host is available from /mnt/term in the guest.


On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 6:48 PM Adriano Verardo 
wrote:

> Hi, all.
>
> I'm using Labs Plan9 with VMware (Workstation Player 12 version).
> All works fine.
>
> Is it possible to mount (or see in whatever else mode) a shared VMware
> folder ?
> Currently I send files from Plan9/VMware to a remote Win7 box using cifs.
> I would like to store directly on the local box.
>
> Could someone kindly give me some suggestions ?
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> adriano
>
>
>

Re: [9fans] vmware shared folders

[Jadon Bennett]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 03:48:25AM +0200, Adriano Verardo wrote:
> Currently I send files from Plan9/VMware to a remote Win7 box using cifs.
> I would like to store directly on the local box.

I don't know much about VMWare, but are you able to run samba or similar
on your host machine, and use cifs with that instead of the Windows box?