QEMU access to host hard disk?

[SoCalRox]

At the suggestion of a couple of folks here, I grabbed QEMU and the QEMU Manager 7 so I could run a virtual machine on a PC I do not have admin rights to. However, I cannot get the Windows XP guest (running on a host with Windows XP) to see the host's C: drive regardless of what I have tried. I thought perhaps it was because of a rights issue, so I ran the VM at home, and still could not find any way to get the guest to see the host. Although the guest can see the internet, it cannot see anything local. I need to transfer some files to the guest but cannot figure a way to do it since to the host the guest is invisible, and vice versa.

Any suggestions?

Thanks, and a hat tip. Well, if I had a hat...

[SoCalRox]

Bump

[+BudMan MVC]

Can not currently test this, but can latter but looks like just access file shares off the host using this address

[+BudMan MVC]

Ok just did a quick test with dsl, since not enough time to install xp, etc.

But yup the 10.0.2.2 address is access to the host

Created a testshare on my windows host (xp)

Then just using the samba client on the dsl, just put in the info, IP address of host machine in this case 10.0.2.2, sharename and then user info.

So this same would work with a xp client.. Just do like the document says and access \\10.0.2.2 and you should see a list of shares you have made available.. Depending if your using simple file sharing or password protected you might get prompted for a user account on the host machine.

[SoCalRox]

Thanks, Budman.

That finally did the trick. I could swear I had done this, but after messing with it a bit it worked finally. :)