Re: [Qemu-devel] Looking for an easy way to exchange data bidirectional between host and guest (including some suggestion)

2005-06-07 Thread Christian MICHON
all these discussions around tftp looked nice and sweet. So I told myself, instead of using winimage (shareware), why not transferring files live. Yet, when you try on a windows host to exchange files with a linux guest (inside qemu and with -tftp option), all you get is: Error code 2: Access

Re: [Qemu-devel] Looking for an easy way to exchange data bidirectional between host and guest (including some suggestion)

2005-06-07 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Jan Marten Simons wrote: Well the TFTP-server should get r/w, too, but if I get it right you'd have to access the data on the guest from the host, which might lead to situation where users shutdown the guest and then try to get their (then lost) data from it via TFTP, which

Re: [Qemu-devel] Looking for an easy way to exchange data bidirectional between host and guest (including some suggestion)

2005-06-07 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Jim C. Brown wrote: Like I said, modifying TFTP for R/W would be a good option. It's already there, the miminalists can't complain about having it removed (e.g. it may one day be used to support virtual netboots), and one can use ftp clients for the tftp server (I think).

Re: [Qemu-devel] Looking for an easy way to exchange data bidirectional between host and guest (including some suggestion)

2005-06-07 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: I can think of some reasons for a non-native file service that is instead built into QEMU: vvfat? e) Scripts to be used across farms of QEMU virtual machines will have more commonalities even across different OSes. The event and content of a file

Re: [Qemu-devel] Looking for an easy way to exchange data bidirectional between host and guest (including some suggestion)

2005-06-07 Thread Henrik Nordstrom
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Christian MICHON wrote: all these discussions around tftp looked nice and sweet. So I told myself, instead of using winimage (shareware), why not transferring files live. Yet, when you try on a windows host to exchange files with a linux guest (inside qemu and with -tftp