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[–] clickbot ago 

You want the guest OS to store data on the host OS?

You can make a directory or paritition from the host OS available via network, possibly restricted to local connection, and mount that on the guest OS. You can do that right now, using NFS, SMB, FTP, SSH, WebDAV, or whatever, and mount any of them with FUSE wherever you need them to be in the guest OS.

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[–] varialus ago  (edited ago)

Yeah I know that I can do that, but I want all the files to be available from the host without any rigamarole regardless of whether the guest OS is running. I'd be fine with the files being read-only on the host. I run many different operating systems and user interfaces, many of which don't support guest OS integration, and sometimes they sit unused for long enough periods of time that I forget whether they have any important files on them and where those files might be. I don't want to have to use every which file browser and random file transfer protocols that I have to worry about locking down, just so I can browse through them to back up anything important and then delete them. Although less satisfactory, the ability to mount any snapshot of the guest on the host in read-write mode while the guest isn't running would suffice, but would be more annoying than just storing them wide and open on the host to begin with.

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[–] clickbot ago 

What makes you think that the guest OS needs to be running for the host OS to make the files available?