Mounting Files across virtual machines

[Alex Dean]

On Dec 10, 2010, at 1:16 PM, Jason Holtzapple wrote:

> On 12/10/2010 11:29 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com wrote:
>>> nfs feels like a graceful solution
>> NOOOOOO!!!
>> DON'T DO THAT TO YOURSELF!!!
>> Use sshfs.
>> If you can ssh, you can, mount.
>> ET
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFS
> 
> Why the NFS hate? It's a decent solution for this request.
> 
> That said, VMWare probably has a VirtualBox shared folder-like feature
> that would be ideal for this.

VMWare has HGFS (host/guest file system).
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws4/doc/running_sharefold_ws.html

alex