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From: Ross Boylan <ross@biostat.ucsf.edu>
Subject: Re: How to share filesystem
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:37:47 -0700
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On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 12:24 +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Am Tue, 24 Sep 2013 01:38:39 -0700
> schrieb Ross Boylan <ross@biostat.ucsf.edu>:
> 
> > I would like to have access to the same file system from the host and
> > the guest.  Can anyone recommend the best way to do this, considering
> > ease of use, safety (concurrent access from guest and host does not
> > corrupt) and performance?
> [...]
> > Among the alternatives I can think of are using NFS and using NBD.
> > Maybe there's some kind of loopback device I could use on the disk image
> > to access it from the host.
> 
> I've never tried it on my own, but there is also virtio-9p:
> 
>  http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup
> 
> Maybe that's what you need?
> 
>  Thomas
> 
At first I saw Plan 9 and figured it was irrelevant to linux, but the
example seems to be Linux.  So I'm puzzled.
Ross