Set up NFS share from mac to Parallels Linux Guest

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On the mac, edit /etc/exports and add a line like so:

"/Users/<username>/develop/" -network 10.211.55.0 -mask 255.255.255.0  -mapall=<username>

The network and mask parameters indicate what hosts we'll share with; in my case, this network is used by the parallels shared network adapter; yours may differ.

You may need to reload nfsd:

sudo nfsd update

And you can check to see that the mounts are indeed exported

showmount -e

On the Linux host, just install the nfs utilities and mount as you normally would. Something like:

mount -t nfs -o proto=tcp,port=2049 10.211.55.2:/Users/<username>/develop  /mnt/develop

The IP in this case is the ip the guest sees for the host. On a linux box, I just use the who command to get this.

Note that if you get a "bad superblock" or other error here, you probably neglected to install an nfs client, and are a big dummy. On ubuntu, you would do an apt-get install nfs-common. Non-apt distributions will differ.

I'd prefer the term 'small dummy' so as not to offend the larger.

If you want to have the mount automatically reattach on reboot:

sudo vim /etc/fstab

# add next line to end:
10.211.55.2:/Users/<username>/develop /mnt/develop nfs proto=tcp,port=2049

# then:
sudo mount -a

I've had issues with caching and added this to end my fstab line: ,actimeo=1

10.211.55.2:/Users/<username>/source /home/<username>/source nfs proto=tcp,port=2049,actimeo=1

I had issues when having the repos inside the Github directory mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting.
Moved them one level up, in the Documents, and mount is successful now.