MOL - General - Disk access

[Philippe van Calsteren]

Hello Mattias

Hope you're right... Samuel ????

On 07/04/05, you wrote:

> 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
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