Re: [CentOS-virt] Accessing NTFS on host from XP/Win7 VM

I have installed XP as a guest under Centos.

Now I want to install, say firefox, whose setup file is in the second NTFS partition of host from the XP guest.

How to make the partition visible to the guest?

Add a full physical disk to the VM:

<disk type='block' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none' io='native'/> <source dev='/dev/sda'/> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/> </disk>

*** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** Don't never ever try to boot Linux again from that disk in a virtual machine OR even write anything onto Linux partitions. Trying to mount/write already mounted partitions = big shit happens.