Virtual FAT disk (bind mounts) on KVMs

luison

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Hi.
Been trying for a while with out success to share certain directory of the host machine on a KVM system running windows.
I understand the most recommended method is NFS or Samba but we have a reason to try to access the data "directly" on the virtual machine even if it's as read only as we plan to index it's content and the tool does not allow any kinds of remotely mounted filesystems.

We found this info http://wiki.qemu.org/TexiDemo#Virtual_FAT_disk_images about Virtual FAT disks but we've had no success.
We've also tried mounting in similar ways as this post: http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5128 by means of a direct access:
virtio1: /var/lib/vz/docs/webs/temp/


Any assistance about if this is at all possible would be gratelly appreciated.
Thanks.