For comparison, this sort of sounds like plan9 folder sharing in qemu 

http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup 
<http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup>
> On Apr 20, 2016, at 1:36 PM, Ken Cornetet 
> <ken.corne...@kimballelectronics.com> wrote:
> 
> This is a great mechanism, but it requires that the guest OS have some native 
> support (or be modified to support) some sort of device where you can pass a 
> file name and then read and write data.
> 
> I actually plan to implement just such a beast on the hp2100. The plan is to 
> create a  custom microcode instruction that will take operands describing the 
> desired host operation perform the appropriate action. Operations would 
> include file operations (wild card globbing, reads, writes) and possibly even 
> socket operations. 
> 
> It would be lovely if this sort of mechanism could be worked into simh in 
> general, but given the wildly different ways this would have to grafted into 
> each emulated machine's archetechture, I can't really see it happening.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Sampsa Laine
> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 12:52 PM
> To: simh@trailing-edge.com
> Subject: Re: [Simh] Way out idea for simh
> 
> I say forget the FTP server, create a device which can access a directory on 
> the host OS via a special device and then code file transfer utilities for 
> each OS that needs it, like the SIMH Altair + CP/M thing..
> 
> Sampsa
> 
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