smb option doesn't appear to work

[Jamin W. Collins]

Binary package hint: kvm

Passing the "-smb dir" parameter appears to have no affect. Based on the man pages and command line help output it should result in the creation of a network share that can be accessed from within the VM.

According to the kvm man page (man kvm):

DESCRIPTION
       kvm is based on qemu and its parameters are the same with the above
       additions, please see the kvm-qemu(1) manpage for instructions on how
       to run the program.

According to the kvm-qemu man page:

       -smb dir
           When using the user mode network stack, activate a built-in SMB
           server so that Windows OSes can access to the host files in dir
           transparently.

           In the guest Windows OS, the line:

                   10.0.2.4 smbserver

           must be added in the file C:\WINDOWS\LMHOSTS (for windows 9x/Me) or
           C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\LMHOSTS (Windows NT/2000).

           Then dir can be accessed in \\smbserver\qemu.

           Note that a SAMBA server must be installed on the host OS in
           /usr/sbin/smbd. QEMU was tested successfully with smbd version
           2.2.7a from the Red Hat 9 and version 3.0.10-1.fc3 from Fedora Core
           3.

From "kvm --help":

-smb dir allow SMB access to files in 'dir' [-net user]

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
KvmCmdLine: Error: command ['ps', '-C', 'kvm', '-F'] failed with exit code 1: UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD
MachineType: LENOVO
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ath_hal
Package: kvm 1:84+dfsg-0ubuntu11
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=66cf90ad-d4ec-4ec1-afb0-3fc3b17e3141 ro vga=0x37d quiet splash crashkernel=384M-2G:64M@16M,2G-:128M@16M
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-11.42-generic
SourcePackage: kvm