VM Player - mounting additional drives

[khinch]

Using Qemu I can mount a local folder as a drive in the guest OS, but it is read-only. Even mounting it as RW causes problems if I try and write to it. Using Virtual PC under Windows I can create a dynamic image which changes size as required.

Is there any option in VMPlayer to either mount a local folder as RW or use a dynamicially re-sizing image? It can be difficult to guess exactly how much space I'll require on a mounted drive in the long term, so one that expands as required would be very helpful.

[r1cs]

Is there any option in VMPlayer to either mount a local folder as RW or use a dynamicially re-sizing image?

"VMPlayer" - means VMware Player, right? Try to mount your image as FAT32 partition like this:

mount -t vfat -o rw,loop,offset=32256 hda.img /mnt/myvm/

Unfortunately, I don't know, it works with a dynamic image or not. But with static image it works perfectly.

P.S. Remember - the dynamic image works much more slowly than a static image. If you want to accelerate the virtual machine, use the static image

[khinch]

"VMPlayer" - means VMware Player, right?

Yes, sorry.

Remember - the dynamic image works much more slowly than a static image.

I didn't know that, thanks.

Code:

mount -t vfat -o rw,loop,offset=32256 hda.img /mnt/myvm/

Unfortunately, I don't know, it works with a dynamic image or not. But with static image it works perfectly.

Thanks for the information. When I know the answer I'll let you know