Op maandag 1 oktober 2018 14:16:32 CEST schreef George from the tribe:
Is there a way to mount a linux partition in a linux virtual machine on a windows host?
The idea is, sometimes I have to boot into windows on my laptop. Most of the time I am in linux, but occasionally I need a true windows environment, without the overhead of a windows virtual machine running in a linux host. When running windows, I have a program that allows me to see and read files on my ext4 partition on the laptop, but it is buggy and performs poorly.
Instead, I would like to have a virtual machine running opensuse on my windows host and mount my ext4 partitions on that virtual machine, even though they don't mount in windows without special software. That way I could access my data files from my linux partition, use the applications I am used to that only run on linux, but still be able to use windows. It would not be my normal mode of operation, but it would give me a lot of flexibility.
The barrier seems to be figuring out how to get a virtual machine to recognize the file system of the physical hard drive, rather than only recognizing virtual drives. Maybe I could trick it into thinking it is a network drive, or something like that? That can be done, provided the VM has access to the same network the laptop's on. On the laptop setup NFS server ( through YaST ), export f.e. /home/george/ Documents. In the VM, setup the NFS client, and mount the export f.e. on / home/george/LaptopDocs
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