On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:41:49AM -0400, ian geiser wrote: > On Thursday, June 24, 2010 04:30:43 am Peter Åstrand wrote: > > > Greetings, I have been working on adding the ability to expose local file > > > systems to a remote instance of qemu. I have decided that since there is > > > already a connection from the client to the VM with the RFB protocol that > > > I want to extend that. I have spent some time researching the current > > > approaches that VNC uses to transfer files between the client and the > > > host and none of them seem to offer a solution I like. The NFS approach > > > is too cumbersome at this point, and transferring entire files to the > > > host before they > > > > We are using NFS with great success, although on top of SSH rather than > > inside VNC. Why do you feel that NFS is too cumbersome?
If I know NFS implementation well, at least on GNU/Linux it is not possible to export and/or mount NFS filesystem without root privileges. I see this as a major drawback of NFS. Regards, Adam -- Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ tigervnc-rfbproto mailing list tigervnc-rfbproto@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-rfbproto
