On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote: > On 02/12/10 12:54 PM, Ben Taylor wrote: >> >> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Mark Logan<Mark.Logan at sun.com> ?wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> ntfsmount depends on FUSE to allow the mounting of NTFS partitions. FUSE >>> is >>> not in OpenSolaris, but the two FUSE packages and a new version of >>> SUNWntfsprogs containing ntfsmount are available here: >>> >>> http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+fuse/Installbin >> >> Now, I haven't tried this with VirtualBox, but back when I was actively >> working >> with QEMU, I was able boot a Win* (NTFS capable) OS in QEMU and give it my >> partition (read only) as a D: drive and the windows easily read what >> it needed off, >> and I used one of the various methods (samba, ftp, scp) to xfer stuff >> out of the VM. >> >> I specifically used setfacl to not open up the device to all users, >> and constrain >> it to the user running QEMU. > > If you only need read access, and not write access, I've used the following > for a long time with great success: > > http://mount-ntfs.sf.net/
good point. back then, that wasn't an option. I also didn't want to imply that read/write wouldn't work. It did, but I was just very careful handing windows in emulation my whole disk. ;-)
