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

[Ron Parker]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Travis Lawrie <tlawrie83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> oi, napp-it, esxi, vt-d, compatible hba in it mode, passthrough, cifs
> shares, nfs shares, store vms on vdevs, all in one ftw

Alas this is on my laptop.

But I am making some progress. Here are some numbers. The first two
are approximate (on the low side) I didn't care to re-run them to get
exact numbers since they are 2 orders of magnitude slower.

Tools and src, dest mounted via NFS: ~30m
Tools local, src, dest mounted via NFS: ~18m
All local: 14s
Tools, dest local, src mounted via SMB/CIFS: 21.5s

Notice the seconds as opposed to minutes.

Now if I can figure out if it's possible to get symlinks working via
SMB/CIFS I can put it all back on the host and try it out.