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craigmiller160
craigmiller160

Reputation: 6273

IntelliJ: Can I read/write/run a project over a network drive?

So at my office, we do Java development and have to test things in multiple environments. This is done through VMs, and the program we use is VMware.

All these VMs take up a lot of disk space, so I'm searching for ways to lower my footprint. I want to work with much, much smaller VMs, so I want to reduce the number of things I need to load into them. My big idea for this is to have a shared directory with my dev environment, and share it with my VMs. That way I can work on my dev environment on multiple OS's without having to waste the extra disk space of having duplicate copies of it.

The problem is that IntelliJ doesn't seem to like accessing a project over a network drive. It's not truly networked, since everything is local on my machine, but that's how it perceives it.

Is there any good way to set it up so that it can work with the shared directory? I feel like I might be doomed here, but if anyone would know it would be someone on this site.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 961

Answers (1)

ursa
ursa

Reputation: 4591

I assume you use Windows in VMs (in *nix VMs you will not suffer from such problems).

You need to map network path to the local drive in the VM:

My Computer > Alt + T > Map network drive... > define you path + local drive > Finish

And use this local drive in IntelliJ.

To automate this procedure across VMs you can use net use console command.

Upvotes: 1

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