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Re: [Xen-users] How to see Dom0 home from the DomU

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] How to see Dom0 home from the DomU
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 17:03:32 +0100
Cc: Miguel Madrid Villar <madrivi@xxxxxxxxx>
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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

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