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hejik

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Registered: 2023-07-21

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Qemu shared folder

Is there a way to run a qemu-kvm VM with a shared folder via terminal?

ralph.ronnquist

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From: Battery Point, Tasmania, AUS

Registered: 2016-11-30

Posts: 1,268  

Re: Qemu shared folder

check out https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup

fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

Posts: 2,501  

Re: Qemu shared folder

I've done it with sshfs, either mounting a directory from the host on the VM or the other way, mounting a directory in the VM on the host.  The former can be done without any network options in the qemu command. You do need to have sshfs installed.

sshfs user@host-ip:/home/user/some-subdirectory  some-mountpoint-in-the-VM

fusermount -u some-mountpoint-in-the-VM   # to un-mount the share

I've done it with nfs, too. That's a little more involved. You can even set it up with autofs so the share mounts automatically when you access the mountpoint.

pcalvert

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Registered: 2017-05-15

Posts: 218  

Re: Qemu shared folder

check out https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup

I've used this. It works. I like the fact that a normal, non-root user can write to the shared directory from the guest system. I seem to recall that on VirtualBox I always had to be root in order to do that.

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