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Subject: Sharing host file systems with a VM
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=E2=80=98guix system vm=E2=80=99 can now be told to share more file systems=
 with the
host, in addition to /gnu/store:

     Additional file systems can be shared between the host and the VM
     using the =E2=80=98--share=E2=80=99 and =E2=80=98--expose=E2=80=99 com=
mand-line options: the former
     specifies a directory to be shared with write access, while the
     latter provides read-only access to the shared directory.

     The example below creates a VM in which the user=E2=80=99s home direct=
ory
     is accessible read-only, and where the =E2=80=98/exchange=E2=80=99 dir=
ectory is a
     read-write mapping of the host=E2=80=99s =E2=80=98$HOME/tmp=E2=80=99:

          guix system vm my-config.scm \
             --expose=3D$HOME --share=3D$HOME/tmp=3D/exchange

Thanks David for giving me an incentive to work on this.  ;-)

Ludo=E2=80=99.