[Cialug] tips for sharing files inside a VM

[Don Ellis]

I like sshfs for this purpose. The IDE wouldn't see a difference from
a local directory, and the guest system would see immediate updated.

Normally, I use an editor that connects to the target system with ssh,
but using sshfs would let you do the same thing with an
editor/whatever that doesn't know how to do ssh. Also, sshfs is really
easy to set up and use (unless you're using Snow Leopard OSX 10.6; the
project is no longer active and doesn't support Snow Leopard. If
someone has newer info, please let me know. Works great on Leopard OSX
10.5)

--Don Ellis


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Matt <matt at itwannabe.com> wrote:
> Haha!  Yeah, I was going to suggest sshfs, but got distracted.  I just
> mounted my C:\ drive from my gaming PC (Windows 7 Ultimate with
> cygwin/openssh installed) to a directory/path within my home directory on
> this nettop PC (Ubuntu 10.10) so that I could have easy access to my music
> and videos while I'm unable to physically get to that computer.  It is
> impressively usable even over wireless-n on an Atom CPU.
>
> -- Matt
>
> On 03/10/2011 06:53 PM, Aaron Porter wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Matthew Nuzum<newz at bearfruit.org>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> sftp would be the simplest approach.
>>>>
>>> I wonder if there's a way to make it happen automatically when a file
>>> changes.
>>
>> Have you looked into sshfs? Would work for your Ubuntu boots at least.