how to access files on HDD while running an ISO on QEMU?

ciden · 08-09-2008, 11:13 PM

I have a quite a few linux ISOs lying on my hard drive.
I can run them using QEMU but it would be very helpful if I could access my /home directory on hdd so that I can use my files for testing the distro.

for example, i would like to access my multimedia files when checking out a multimedia distro iso.

brianmcgee · 08-10-2008, 02:05 AM

Qemu may mount physical volumes that are not written by the host system. The easiest way probably would be to export NFS shares to the virtual machine.

ciden · 08-10-2008, 02:21 AM

I have only one root partition, alongwith a swap partition.

is it possible to read files from the partition from where the host system is running?

BTW, i have no experience of file sharing over networks. So whatever you said is quite cryptic to me.

Thank you for ur help anyway.