Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM - Virtio drivers for Centos 5.1

2012-08-14 Thread Markus Falb
On 27.4.2012 00:12, aurfalien wrote: > Or, should I change the fstab on the running VM after setting the disk type > to virtio first? > > I assume the mount points should be /dev/vda# etc... You have to change the fstab *before* you change to virtio. But thats not enough, you have to tell your

Re: [CentOS-virt] Accessing NTFS on host from XP/Win7 VM

2012-08-14 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, fdisk -l on baremetal shows: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 16527524280967 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda26528 54108 382194352f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda3 54109 54172 512000 83

Re: [CentOS-virt] Accessing NTFS on host from XP/Win7 VM

2012-08-14 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Dmitry E. Mikhailov wrote: >> I have installed XP as a guest under Centos. >> >> Now I want to install, say firefox, whose setup file is in the second >> NTFS partition of host from the XP guest. >> >> How to make the partition visible to the guest? >

Re: [CentOS-virt] Accessing NTFS on host from XP/Win7 VM

2012-08-14 Thread Dmitry E. Mikhailov
> I have installed XP as a guest under Centos. > > Now I want to install, say firefox, whose setup file is in the second > NTFS partition of host from the XP guest. > > How to make the partition visible to the guest? Add a full physical disk to the VM: ***

Re: [CentOS-virt] Accessing NTFS on host from XP/Win7 VM

2012-08-14 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Dmitry E. Mikhailov wrote: > I didn't quite understand, what do you want to achieve. > I had winXP and CentOS 5.8 installed simultaneously on my laptop, winXP > was dual-use: either on a bare metal or as a guest in VMWare under > running CentOS. Had to

Re: [CentOS-virt] Accessing NTFS on host from XP/Win7 VM

2012-08-14 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:45 AM, mike thompson wrote: > yum install ntfs-3g Done that already Am able to access the partition. Thanks -- Regards, Rajagopal ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mai

Re: [CentOS-virt] Accessing NTFS on host from XP/Win7 VM

2012-08-14 Thread Dmitry E. Mikhailov
On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 00:24 +0530, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > I have installed Centos 6.3 recently on bare metal (as dual boot with > win 7) and want to access the existing NTFS through XP Guest. I didn't quite understand, what do you want to achieve. I had winXP and CentOS 5.8

Re: [CentOS-virt] Accessing NTFS on host from XP/Win7 VM

2012-08-14 Thread mike thompson
yum install ntfs-3g On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan < raju.rajs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > I have installed Centos 6.3 recently on bare metal (as dual boot with > win 7) and want to access the existing NTFS through XP Guest. > > SELinux is enforcing and VM netwo

[CentOS-virt] Accessing NTFS on host from XP/Win7 VM

2012-08-14 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, I have installed Centos 6.3 recently on bare metal (as dual boot with win 7) and want to access the existing NTFS through XP Guest. SELinux is enforcing and VM network is NAT. Google confused me more that educating me -- maybe I could not cobble up the right phrase. Any help apprecia