Greetings, On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Dmitry E. Mikhailov <d.mikhailov at infocommunications.ru> wrote: >> 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. > Thanks for the reply. But your reply scares me. My Centos ISOs and a lot of things are in those NTFS partitions which are used with Win 7 booted on baremetal. -- Regards, Rajagopal