Can the guest vm's access the host machine file system in RHEL6 virtualization? Is there any protocol? And how to configure it? Because the guests should have access to host files every time and without doing the configuration every time.
Excuse me, if my question is not with proper n/w terminologies, because I am new to N/W concepts.
upvoted Beerey. Just also wanted to say that the most common way to achieve what you're after is by using NFS and automount or even have the NFS mount in fstab.
Guest VMs are isolated from the host under KVM - from within the VM you are not able to access the filesystem or the host resources through any method not available to a normal machine.
However, they are able to access the hosts via the network (ssh/ftp/http/etc), in the same way that a separate, physical machine is. This holds true unless you have configured the network to block access to the host or turned off those access methods.
Generally, a standard RHEL6/RHEV host will have at least SSH enabled, and guest VMs aren't VLANed or otherwise segregated automatically. You should therefore be able to access the host and its files via SSH.
