PowerGod
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Hi, I need to share things to a VM but the included functionality of Virtualbox has some issues... so I was thinking about an NFS share (I always heard about it but never used)...
The problem is that I have Windows 8 HOME ... and seems like nothing from Microsoft regarding NFS could be installed in it...
So I'll need to use third party tools, and my research gave small results... I can't find many tools for Win8, and the ones I found seems "unknown" to the most... and also there's a general lack of documentation...
I found these things that "should" work on Win8:
- FreeNFS (http://freenfs.sourceforge.net/)
- Cygwin SHOULD have something, but I'm using the 64bit version and I can't understand if there's everything needed or just some incomplete parts, there's no documentation at all, or at least is really hidden...
- Allegro NFS Server for Windows (https://github.com/franzinc/nfs) that must be used in Cygwin
I found some Cygwin guides to set up an NFS server, but everyone of them are really old and uses commands that are not included in the repo...
I found "nfs-server" and "unfs3" packages but then I see no new services added... also there are no configuration utilities...
And then there's that "Allegro NFS Server" that I wonder if it's needed or not, after all there should already be everything I need in the cygwin repo...
Is there anyone who uses these tools and could give some advice ?
Thanks
The problem is that I have Windows 8 HOME ... and seems like nothing from Microsoft regarding NFS could be installed in it...
So I'll need to use third party tools, and my research gave small results... I can't find many tools for Win8, and the ones I found seems "unknown" to the most... and also there's a general lack of documentation...
I found these things that "should" work on Win8:
- FreeNFS (http://freenfs.sourceforge.net/)
- Cygwin SHOULD have something, but I'm using the 64bit version and I can't understand if there's everything needed or just some incomplete parts, there's no documentation at all, or at least is really hidden...
- Allegro NFS Server for Windows (https://github.com/franzinc/nfs) that must be used in Cygwin
I found some Cygwin guides to set up an NFS server, but everyone of them are really old and uses commands that are not included in the repo...
I found "nfs-server" and "unfs3" packages but then I see no new services added... also there are no configuration utilities...
And then there's that "Allegro NFS Server" that I wonder if it's needed or not, after all there should already be everything I need in the cygwin repo...
Is there anyone who uses these tools and could give some advice ?
Thanks