Hi,
> > why would somebody want to _share_ the host files with
> > the guest, instead of having a separate filesystem for
> > them?
>
> This is actually how Solaris 10 zones work. In a Solaris 10
> zone the filesystems /usr /bin /lib and so on are read-only loop-back
> mounts to the host OS. It makes the guest a lot smaller as a result.
> Pretty much most of the overhead of a guest ("zone" in Solaris terms)
> is the local files in writeable filesystems to ensure OS stability
> (eg /var/sadm for package maintenance).You could use unionfs or bind-mounts to share directories between host- and guest-filesystem. Of course this would need some manuall work... Cheers, Sebastian -- Sebastian "tokkee" Harl GnuPG-ID: 0x8501C7FC http://tokkee.org/
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