Sharing Between Host And Guest

Can anyone show me how to use Slax's Samba to connect to other network shares?

I get connection refused when trying to access my vmware host:

My vmware host shares work fine if I access them from within Windows clients.

VMWare share? That works only if you have VMTools installed on your VMWindows. VMWare sharing on linux requires the vmtools as well, but it uses hgfs, not smbfs. The hgfs from VMWare itself doesn't really compile cleanly on slax. I had to compile OpenVMTools to get hgfs and the rest working nicely.

For example, if you use VMWare to share your C:/Temp as "myhostmachinedir", then "myhostmachinedir" is your vmshare alias. You can mount the share like this:

1) make sure you have a mount point for the vmshare , eg : /mnt/vmshare if not create it (mkdir -p /mnt/vmshare)

2) determine your vmshare alias, open a terminal and type :

this will return you the alias value, eg myhostmachinedir

3) mount the directory with hgfsmounter, if the share alias is "myhostmachinedir" and you want to mount it to /mnt/vmshare :

Then you can access that directory on your host machine (C:/Temp) as /mnt/vmshare on your guest machine.

http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=11661

Part of the vmtools is hgfsmounter and hgfsclient. These are what you need to use. On your VM host side, you have to create which directories you want to share with the guest. This is done on VMWare, under the settings. You select your disk or folder to share and select an alias for that disk or folder. Lets say you want to share C:\Temp and you alias it as VM-Temp.

In Slax, open a terminal and type "hgfsclient", it should show you "VM-Temp" to inform you that there is a share called "VM-Temp" available. Then create a directory to mount the VM-Temp to, eg: "mkdir -p /mnt/vmshare". Now you are ready to mount the host shared directory to your Slax guest :

Now you can access your C:\Temp in the Slax guest by cd-ing to /mnt/vmshare.

documented on: 2008-05-19, markds

Thanks a lot markds. That's more than I need, :-)

Just for the archive and clearness, the ".host" in

should be used as-is. I thought I should substitute it with my true host name, but I get:

Further, I found that the following description from hgfsmounter doesn't work under Slax:

Last, a small tip, I found that actually we can skip the step of using the "hgfsclient" to list the host shares:

This will mount all shares from the host for us in a single command.

documented on: 2008-05-19, xpt

I try not to confuse people because they usually then ask about how do all the directories get mounted under just one mount point. After the first 3 people asked about this, I figured it was more trouble than it was worth so I stuck to the single directory example.

documented on: 2008-05-19, markds

*Tags*: file sharing between virtual machine and host

From http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/file-sharing-between-a-virtual-machine-and-the-host-machine-457763/

file sharing between a virtual machine and the host machine is possible. If, for example, your main OS was Linux and the OS in your VMWare session was Windows you could do the following:

documented on: 06-24-06, gilead (Steve)

From

The guest os under vmware cannot see a samba share running on the linux host. To fix this problem, edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and make some changes under [global]. The following are suggested:

This page was last modified 01:25, 18 February 2008

documented on: 2008-02-26

http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/loopback_linux.html

vmware-mount is a program that runs on the host operating system. It makes a virtual disk file appear as a hard disk to the operating system.

Say, for example, that your virtual hard disk file is ~/vmware/vhd.dsk. Follow these steps:

You can now browse /mnt/vhd as usual. It works as if a physical device were mounted on the directory When you are finished, simply kill vmware-mount.pl by typing Ctrl-C in its terminal.

documented on: 2007-08-13

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8394

I too run VMware workstation to use Windows programs. 1GB of RAM with a 1.4mhz Pmobile works pretty well. Mine is running on Ubuntu 5.04 with no difficulties. It is nowhere near as fast as Windows running natively but is acceptable. I have used it on Mandrake (Mandriva), Gentoo, Redhat and Debian without difficulty. It boots somewhat slowly but runs pretty well.

The biggest problem with VMware on a laptop is that the host IP changes with locations. And then the guests cannot find the host to share files without a great deal of effort, every time you change locations. It get's old real quick. I take the laptop home at night and I'm tired of changing guest IP info.

There's a very easy way to share files between host and guest in everywhere without modifying anything when changing place.

You just have to add another ethernet interface to the guest. Then you can define that eth0 is for the outside world (using bridge mode, probably dhcp enabled for eth0) and eth1 is using host-only mode. Guest can then have a static ip address or dhcp enabled (usually gets always the same ip address). Host has a static ip address (host-only network adapter Vmnet1), so guest OS always finds the host using that ip address. No more trickies and worries about host and guest, they have created a private LAN. Now you can change the place as much as you like.

by Anonymous on 2005-08-09

http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vmtools.html

vmw

This is a generic backdoor access program with following functions:

vmshrink

This is a program to shrink virtual disks from command line in a VMware guest.

vmftp

This is an FTP client-like user interface program to exchange files between host and guest through VMware Shared Folders. Naturally it requires a VMware product which supports the Shared Folders feature (Workstation 4.0 and later).