Hello :-)

I'm setting up Slackware64 13.1 as a guest on a Slackware64 13.1 host running VirtualBox 3.2.8 PUEL and want to begin by replicating the host's / to the guest.

The idea was to NFS export / from the host, boot Knoppix 6.2, NFS mount in the guest and copy the files but I haven't been able to NFS mount under Knoppix.

At first I tried with NAT networking but NFS is mentioned in the VirtualBox User Guide in the NAT limitations section so I switched to bridged networking. After mounting / did not work, I switched to mounting /home/c/d which is "known good" -- regularly used for syncing with my netbook

On the guest, running Knoppix, networking seems OK. It uses DHCP. I can browse and traceroute LQ by name. ifconfig shows 192.168.168.201 and a 255.255.255.0 netmask. The host has a static IP configuration, 192.168.168.7/24 (confirmed). mount -t nfs 192.168.168.7:/home/c/d /mnt eventually gives "mount system call failed". The -o nfsvers=3 option gets "rpc.statd not running" with a recommendation to start it or use -o nolock. The -o nolock option gets a timeout. /etc/init.d/nfs-common start gets "statd failed!" (huh?).

On the host, NFS-serving works:Any ideas?

Best

Charles

Have you checked that the guest can connect to the host with a simpler protocol, like telnet or ssh?

Are you just planning to do a one-time copy, or do you mean to do something more complicated? If you're only doing a simple copy, you could work around this by doing something with fewer moving parts, e.g. a tar+ssh trick. That would be something like

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Thanks aluser

Just tried telnet and ssh; they both worked. Retried mount -t nfs 192.168.168.7:/home/c/d /mnt; still failed.

Thanks for the workaround suggestion. I already worked around it by loop mounting the file systems within the .vdi file on the host, getting the offsets using Saulo's script. The technique requires a fixed (not expanding) .vdi file and a file system. It was more convenient than the original idea of using NFS because files could be edited on the host which is easier than in a VM without Guest Additions.