On Monday 08 May 2006 17:47, Nick Rout wrote: > On Mon, May 8, 2006 5:41 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Monday 08 May 2006 15:58, Nick Rout wrote: > >> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 15:56 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > >> > On Monday 08 May 2006 15:01, Nick Rout wrote: > >> > > If your linux filessystem is ext2 or ext3 you can use IFS: > >> > > > >> > > http://www.fs-driver.org/ > >> > > >> > The way most people do it is to have a small 'port-hole' partition > >> > formatted in vfat which can then be used by both Linux and Windows. > >> > If you disk is fully partitioned you might find using a USB memory > >> > stick convenient. > >> > > >> > Otherwise either run 'Captive' by Jan Kratochvil [1] or temporarily > >> > run Windows in a qemu environment and transfer the files to and fro > >> > with the Linux host environment using Samba and Windows using the > >> > Network Neighbourhood. Very convenient, but rather difficult to set > >> > up. > >> > > >> > [1] http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ > >> > [2] http://us5.samba.org/samba/ > >> > >> you are back to front, he wanted to access a linux filesystem from > >> windows, not the other way around. > > > > Option 2 is bi-directional, and you can use any filesystem you like on > > the Linux side. > > But then don't you end up with the files on the windows side in a qemu > virtual file system, which is just an image file on your linux > partition? Can you tell me how Bernard booted to windows would access > that data?
He can't from a booted windows, but he can if windows is running in a qemu host by using the Network Neighbourhood on the Windows side and Samba on the Linux - host - side, because it is possible to make network connections between the host and and windows in its qemu environment. ftp is another possibility. iirc, Wesley showed this off some months ago. I wouldn't recommend that Bernard tries to set this up, because the 'letter-box' or 'port-hole' vfat file system method is far simpler. -- CS
