[OpenIndiana-discuss] Best way to share files between host and VMs?

[Travis Lawrie]

oi, napp-it, esxi, vt-d, compatible hba in it mode, passthrough, cifs
shares, nfs shares, store vms on vdevs, all in one ftw

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On Apr 27, 2012, at 8:11 AM, Ron Parker <rdparker at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I'm running oi_151a3 with VirtualBox 4.1.12 and a number of VM's. My
> VM's include several Linux's of various vintages including an in-house
> "embedded" distribution and Windows 7.
>
> It would be convenient to be able to share GB of data between my host
> and the various VM's instead of copying all of that around between the
> host and VM's. However the performance of NFS mounting something from
> the host into the VM's is painful. Compiles that should take a couple
> minutes take over 30 just to ./configure. I am painfully aware of the
> contention and performance issues related to OpenIndiana, VirtualBox
> and NFS but have no idea how to resolve them.
>
> Something in me screams there has to be a better way. My VM's have two
> NIC's configured. One is NAT to reach the local network. I can't
> bridge them. The other is host-only to communicate with the host and
> occasionally with other VM's.
>
> What is the best way to share data between an OI host and
> Linux/Windows VirtualBox VM's?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron
>
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