[arch-general] Qemu - File sharing using Samba

[Jakub Klinkovský]

On 07.07.14 at 16:40, Csányi Pál wrote:
> Hi Guus,
> 
> 2014-07-06 22:37 GMT+02:00 Guus Snijders <gsnijders at gmail.com>:
> > Op 6 jul. 2014 20:08 schreef "Csányi Pál" <csanyipal at gmail.com> het
> > volgende:
> >>
> >> 2014-07-06 16:50 GMT+02:00 Jakub Klinkovský <j.l.k at gmx.com>:
> >> > On 06.07.14 at 16:14, Csányi Pál wrote:
> >>
> >> [...]
> >
> >> OK, I red that and now I'm starting my VM with the command:
> >>
> >> qemu-system-x86_64 -net nic -net user,smb=/mnt/windows7 -cpu core2duo
> >> -m 1024 -k hu -enable-kvm -usbdevice tablet
> >> /var/lib/libvirt/images/win7.qcow2
> >>
> >> Still, when I'm trying to acess the \\10.0.2.4\qemu in Windows
> >> explorer, I get nothing. The error message is about that that the
> >> server is not responding, saying something about time..
> >
> > Can you ping that ip adress from Windows?
> 
> I can't ping 10.0.2.4 IP address from Windows.

I don't think ping will ever work for user networking, this should be fine.

> 
> > Second: do you have filesharing enabled in the Windows vm
> > (and instructed the firewall to allow that)?
> 
> I think I have filesharing enabled in the Windows vm
> (and instructed the firewall to allow that)
> 
> because I did setup on Windows vm this by following these steps:
> http://swerdna.dyndns.org/susesambawin7.html
> 

I can't access that url.

> Still, I'm not sure in that that what did I on Windows vm, because:
> 1. the \\10.0.2.4\qemu directory is on the host GNU/Linux system, right,
> 2. the directory I shared on the Windows vm is a directory on that
> Windows vm system
> 
> so these two settings is for different things, right?

That's right, for 1. you're fine with user networking (-net user,smb=...), but
for 2. you will need something better to be able to access the guest system from
the host. See the subsections of QEMU#Networking [1] on the wiki.

[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU#Networking

> 
> -- 
> Regards from Pal

--
jlk
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