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This might be handy for passing files to a virtual machine if you don't want to use Virtualbox's 'guest additions' software
by DerekBickerton 5y ago
This might be handy for passing files to a virtual machine if you don't want to use Virtualbox's 'guest additions' software
- jabiko 5y agoWhy wouldn't you want to use the VirtualBox guest additions? It's GPLv2 licensed and brings additional features that make using the VM easier.
- joombaga 5y agoYou might not want to be locked in. I've used VirtualBox to build systems meant to eventually run elsewhere.
- franga2000 5y agoIt's an absolute disaster for one. I haven't actually managed to get shared folders to work reliably in years. It ended up being faster and more reliable to run Samba on the host and connect over a virtual network. Some of the other features of course can't easily be duplicated with other tools and they work decent-ish anyways so there's no reason to try, but shared folders aren't one of them.
- selfhoster11 5y agoThey are always rock solid for me on Windows guests. Linux guests are a different matter altogether, but mainly due to permissions.
- riedel 5y agoActually WSL2 might be a better target as it would enable some tweaking of the mapping. Did anyone have success implementing virtio communication through hyperv and mount e.g. a custom p9fs. E.g. to support ownership and attributes. What would be the best p9fs server to start with? I had limited success with p9fs on winfsp from cygwin some time ago due to the problems of mapping effective access rights correctly.
- piscisaureus 5y agoI found https://github.com/pfpacket/rust-9p https://github.com/pfpacket/rust-9p to be reasonably good and easy to hack on. My fork (https://github.com/piscisaureus/rust-9p https://github.com/piscisaureus/rust-9p) has some patches to improve support for the 9P2000.W dialect used by Windows.