MOL - General - Disk access

[Mattias Nissler]

Hi all,

On 04.07.2005, at 23:25, Philippe van Calsteren wrote:

> Copy files between MOL and Linux is very complicated and geek like,
> i used to create a FAT16/MSDOS partition, wich then would be my
> in between partition to get files from and to MOL.

Why don't you use networking?

>
> I have found a easy'er solution, now i use BasiliskII, it's a simple
> 68k mac emulator OPEN SOURCE!!!, wich runs very very very fast,
> and can read MacOS drives also the ones i use for MOL. Basilisk
> adds your Unix Root as icon on the desktop, Thats easy! :P
>
> Here's what i don't understand, BasiliskII is open source, now i'm
> no developer but i can imagine grabbing the unix filesystem code from
> basilisk and paste it into the mol source somewhere, this would  
> make mol
> be able to share files between linux and mol.
>
> Am i right or am i right ?

Well, actually, I think for Mac OS maybe yes, for Mac OS X probably  
no. Here is why: Having the disk on your desktop (inside the virtual  
machine) means the OS in the virtual machine has to have a method of  
accessing the filesystem which is usually accomplished by a  
filesystem driver. BasiliskII has such a one for Mac OS and it should  
be possible to adapt that code for MOL. I guess there might be some  
changes needed for crossing the boundary between the virtual and the  
physical machine (this is obviously needed to actually access the  
files). Since Mac OS X is built on top of a BSD-like Unix kernel that  
filesystem driver would have to be redone in order to function. But  
it would be probably possible to have the part inside host OS process  
be the same for both drivers.

Now am I right?

Mattias