mount host machine folder

[mafintosh]

hey! great project!
is there anyway to mount a folder from the host machine inside the vm?

[colby-swandale]

you could use a nfs mount.

[gregory]

could you give more details @colby-swandale

[colby-swandale]

@gregory there are literally thousands of posts on how to do this.

[gregory]

oh sorry. i thought you meant a clean way to do it.... dont want to setup nfs server just for that :(
i used nfs at the very beginning when guest addition was not in boot2docker yet. thx though

[huytd]

yes, I'm looking for something like shared folder in VirtualBox with xhyve :D is there any way to do that?

[huytd]

OK, Thank to @colby-swandale
Running NFS server is not a big deal, it's very simple with just 1 command line.
Here is the detailed note on how to mount host machine folder:

Host: Mac OS X
Client: TinyCore

Step 1: Enable network in xhyverun

If you are using xhyverun.sh to boot the TinyCore, just delete the comment character (#) before NET config

# NET="-s 2:0,virtio-net"

to

NET="-s 2:0,virtio-net"

Start the TinyCore VM with sudo:

sudo ./xhyverun.sh

Step 2: Setup NFS Server on Host

• Create /etc/exports file

sudo touch /etc/exports
sudo vi /etc/exports

• Config the Exports file with the following syntax:

/Folder/on/host -mapall=501

Each folder in a line. The mapall parameter indicate the ID of user that have permission to access that host folder.
To find your user ID, type:

id

This is important unless you want to get Connection refused error when mounting from client.

For example, this is my /etc/exports file:

/Users/huy/Shared -mapall=501

Step 3: Start and check NFS Server

• Start the NFS server with the following command:

sudo nfsd start

or restart it if it already started.

sudo nfsd restart

• Check the shared folder with the following command:

showmount -e

Your shared folder should displayed.

Step 4: Mount the host folder on guest machine

In TinyCore guest, create a folder somewhere to access the shared folder, for example:

mkdir ~/shared

Mount the host folder with the following command:

sudo mount -o nolock <host-ip>:/Users/huy/Shared/ ~/shared

Done!

[xez]

It would be cool if bhyve/xhyve had an implementation of VirtFS/virtio-9p as a much more efficient way to support shared folders. u9fs might be a good starting point for a VirtIO implementation and seems to be license compatible.

[stv0g]

There's a fork which implements virtio-9p here: https://github.com/jceel/xhyve

UPDATE: Also have a look at #70. I successfully rebased it against the latest version and I am pretty happy with it stv0g/xyhve@virtio-9p

[mauron85]

Probably no news for most of you, but you could use https://syncthing.net/. Using it with alpine linux and OSX. Very easy to setup if you don't mind syncing is not instant thing.

[xpepermint]

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