"Richard W.M. Jones" <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 07:18:42AM -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm new to KVM (just got a CPU with VT-x support) so now I can finally >> use QEMU/KVM properly. I'm using Fedora 14. Yes I know it's not >> supported; I promise I won't ask for issues I'll encounter until I >> upgrade to F18 when it comes out :) (and then I'll face GNOME 3...) >> >> Right now I've been playing with a Windows XP VM and so far so good; I >> love the performance. Since my previous experience was with VMware >> Workstation/Player & VirtualBox I've got some general questions >> regarding virtualization (from the point of view of a desktop user): >> >> 1) Is there an equivalent of "VMware Tools"/"Guest Additions"? I noticed >> there's an ISO with the paravirtualized drivers (VirtIO) but I'm >> wondering: If you're not using any of those paravirtualized drivers: is >> there anything to be installed on the guest in order to integrate it >> more with the host? > > To rephrase the question as "is there anything like the smooth > integration that VMware Tools / VirtualBox gives you?" then the answer > is no. Virtio is aimed at performance; in general most of the tools > are aimed at using and deploying virtual machines as servers, where > fancy UI integration across virtual desktops isn't important; but > maximum performance, ease of massive deployment, scripting, cloud > etc. are important. > >> 2) What's the standard method you guys use to transfer files between the >> guest & the host? Is drag & drop supported with Spice these days? Do >> you recreate the "Shared Folder" thing (like VirtualBox) using Samba on >> the host? or do you loop mount the VM disk image when the guest is down? > > Similar to the previous answer, but you can do this using Dropbox, > Samba, NFS, etc. Just treat VMs the same as networked machines and > you won't go far wrong.
Add to the list: 9p (Plan 9 folder sharing over Virtio). Haven't gotten around to trying it myself, but it sounds like it could address (some of) Jorge's needs. http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup [...] _______________________________________________ virt mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
