Re: [9fans] vmware shared folders

[Adriano Verardo <adr.verardo@gmail.com>]

Jadon Bennett wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 03:48:25AM +0200, Adriano Verardo wrote:
>> Currently I send files from Plan9/VMware to a remote Win7 box using cifs.
>> I would like to store directly on the local box.
> I don't know much about VMWare, but are you able to run samba or similar
> on your host machine, and use cifs with that instead of the Windows box?
>
>
Now I have 2 boxes.
A is a Win7 that runs VMware. Plan9 runs in the VMware VM.
B is a Win7 I use to store Plan9 files through cifs.
My goal is to do all the job on A because sometimes I've no net to
connect to.

I tried to cifs a "normal" shared folder of A from Plan9, say as if
Plan9 were on another box.
I think it should be possible, but I'm not sure and in any case I could
not make it work.

Reading the VMware doc I see that's possible to define shared folders
"in the VM" and
on internet there are examples on how to access them from a Linux
running in the VM.

So I configured a VM shared folder X and looked in /mnt /n /srv hoping
to find a reference
to X.

adriano