Hello, i have been looking over inet for an answer to a problem iam unable to resolve, and after not being able to find a solution, i hope to get an aswer in the list. I have been trying to reach my /home (Dom0) from one of my virtual machines (i''m runnning them in debian etch) and i''m unable to do it, what i''m trying to do is to catch a file from the /home of my Dom0, copy it, and paste it in the /home of the virtual machine hosted in the debian Dom0. I''m trying to do it without mounting the dom0 directory, my perfect solution could be one where i can directly see the Dom0 /home like with vmware tools, where you can drag and drop a file from the host machine to the guest machine. Is it possible? or i''m trying to do an impossible feat? Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Friday 16 May 2008, Miguel Madrid Villar wrote:> Hello, i have been looking over inet for an answer to a problem iam unable > to resolve, and after not being able to find a solution, i hope to get an > aswer in the list. > > I have been trying to reach my /home (Dom0) from one of my virtual machines > (i''m runnning them in debian etch) and i''m unable to do it, what i''m trying > to do is to catch a file from the /home of my Dom0, copy it, and paste it > in the /home of the virtual machine hosted in the debian Dom0. > > I''m trying to do it without mounting the dom0 directory, my perfect > solution could be one where i can directly see the Dom0 /home like with > vmware tools, where you can drag and drop a file from the host machine to > the guest machine. > > Is it possible? or i''m trying to do an impossible feat?I''d suggest you consider one of the following options: * export (possibly read only) the file you want to the domU using NFS * export the guest''s filesystem using NFS and then copy files onto it * set up SSH keys so that you can simply scp files into the guest * boot the guest from NFS entirely * use a cluster filesystem There are probably more options too. I would think that setting up ssh keys and then using scp would be the simplest way of doing things if you have network access. Cheers, Mark -- Push Me Pull You - Distributed SCM tool (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~maw48/pmpu/) _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:> On Friday 16 May 2008, Miguel Madrid Villar wrote: >> Hello, i have been looking over inet for an answer to a problem iam unable >> to resolve, and after not being able to find a solution, i hope to get an >> aswer in the list. >> >> I have been trying to reach my /home (Dom0) from one of my virtual machines >> (i''m runnning them in debian etch) and i''m unable to do it, what i''m trying >> to do is to catch a file from the /home of my Dom0, copy it, and paste it >> in the /home of the virtual machine hosted in the debian Dom0. >> >> I''m trying to do it without mounting the dom0 directory, my perfect >> solution could be one where i can directly see the Dom0 /home like with >> vmware tools, where you can drag and drop a file from the host machine to >> the guest machine. >> >> Is it possible? or i''m trying to do an impossible feat? > > I''d suggest you consider one of the following options: > * export (possibly read only) the file you want to the domU using NFS > * export the guest''s filesystem using NFS and then copy files onto it > * set up SSH keys so that you can simply scp files into the guest > * boot the guest from NFS entirely > * use a cluster filesystem > > There are probably more options too. I would think that setting up ssh keys > and then using scp would be the simplest way of doing things if you have > network access.I think that all of these are good solutions too. Another option that I would add would be to setup host-only networking with a dummy device in dom0 and adding a the domU to that dummy bridge. That way the guest and dom0 can connect directly over the network in a secure and private way. Cheers, Todd _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users