Virtualization

This post hopes to explain how to enable a shared folder with a Windows guest on Libvirt/QEMU using Virtiofs. An official Windows Guide is provided that generally covers everything needed. This post has snippets that help automate the process. Virtiofs A newer approach to shared file systems between virtual machines and hosts. From the main site: Virtiofs is a shared file system that lets virtual machines access a directory tree on the host....

Figuring It All Out Consider you have the following needs/limitations: A Windows host A desire to use Packer to build Windows VMs A desire to use Ansible to provision Windows VMs No support for nested virtualization In my personal case, I’m using a Windows 10 Home edition which lacks certain virtualization features you might find in the Pro version (like running Hyper-V). So I’m using VirtualBox as the hypervisor. I also have Ubuntu running on WSL....