CentOS virt - Aug 2012 - Accessing NTFS on host from XP/Win7 VM

Greetings,

I have installed Centos 6.3 recently on bare metal (as dual boot with
win 7) and want to access the existing NTFS through XP Guest.

SELinux is enforcing and VM network is NAT.

Google confused me more that educating me -- maybe I could not cobble
up the right phrase.

Any help appreciated.

TIA

It is my only system at home.

-- 
Regards,

Rajagopal

yum install ntfs-3g


On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan <
raju.rajsand at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have installed Centos 6.3 recently on bare metal (as dual boot with
> win 7) and want to access the existing NTFS through XP Guest.
>
> SELinux is enforcing and VM network is NAT.
>
> Google confused me more that educating me -- maybe I could not cobble
> up the right phrase.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> TIA
>
> It is my only system at home.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Rajagopal
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On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 00:24 +0530, Rajagopal Swaminathan
wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I have installed Centos 6.3 recently on bare metal (as dual boot with
> win 7) and want to access the existing NTFS through XP Guest.
I didn't quite understand, what do you want to achieve.
I had winXP and CentOS 5.8 installed simultaneously on my laptop, winXP
was dual-use: either on a bare metal or as a guest in VMWare under
running CentOS. Had to create two hardware configurations on WinXP and
play with disk controllers.

Now I have CentOS 6.3 (recently installed) and going to achieve the same
thing under KVM. Shouldn't be different.

Best regards,
	Dmitry Mikhailov

Greetings,

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:45 AM, mike thompson <kyrunner2 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> yum install ntfs-3g
Done that already

Am able to access the partition.

Thanks

-- 
Regards,

Rajagopal

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan
<raju.rajsand at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have installed Centos 6.3 recently on bare metal (as dual boot with
> win 7) and want to access the existing NTFS through XP Guest.
Let me see if I understood your problem statement fully/correctly:

1. You have a system with Windows 7 (say sda1) and Centos 6.3 (say sda2)
2. You are booted into CentOS 6.3  and running a Win XP guest in a VM (LKVM?)
3. Now you want to access /dev/sda1 (NTFS) from within the Win XP VM
> SELinux is enforcing and VM network is NAT.
>
> Google confused me more that educating me -- maybe I could not cobble
> up the right phrase.
>
> Any help appreciated.
How are you starting the VM?  CLI or virt-manager.

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