MASSIVE BUMP!
A handy tool was made to enable a shared folder to the host filesystem. I had to go to the discord channel to learn how to get it into the image, and got this handy tutorial:
Adespoton: The trick is getting the driver on your OS 9 image in the first place; OS 9 browsers don't understand https and the driver is currently hosted on an https-only site.
The easiest method really is to edit your OS 9 VM, add a new IDE drive of, say, 1GB, and make sure you check the RAW checkbox. Then boot into OS 9, and run Drive Setup. You should have an item sitting there. Initialize it. Shut down the VM. Right-click on the VM in the list and select "Show in Finder". Right click on the file and select "Show package contents". Open the Data folder, and there should be a file with the extension .img in there. Double click it to mount it in the Finder. Copy stuff onto it that you need (like the virtfs driver) and eject the disk from the host Finder. Once the disk ejects, start the VM again. Open the virtual disk, and there are your files.
Once you've copied the 9p.ndrv.hqx file onto there that way, you can use Stuffit Expander to extract the extension, and drag the 9p.ndrv file over your System Folder. It will ask to be put in the Extensions folder. OK that, then shut down the VM, edit the VM again and click on Sharing. Select VirtFS under Directory Share Mode, and browse for the file path on the host that you want to share on the guest OS 9 system. Click Save, and start your VM again. You'll now have a "Shared Folder" drive that maps directly to the folder on your host system.
You can go back now and delete the extra disk image from your VM config if you want; you don't really need it anymore since you have a shared folder.
Now I have a working OS 9.2.1 vm with a shared folder and the marathon trilogy box set files on it.
Wowee! This comes with a bunch of desktop wallpapers (in pict format) and a collection of user maps. Is this stuff on simplici7y already? Well, I do have the ability to pull these out of their old mac environment and upload them for preservation's sake.
Simplici7y.com lost its search function, and all scenarios are linked to a moddb or internet archive link. Was there a massive loss destroying simplici7y's native file archive?
