From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com>,
Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, gorcunov@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] kvm tools: Add help and info messages to 'kvm setup'
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:51:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111014065144.GA20587@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOJsxLG9=1njSfDwguMw6Ko_Yng8Y+Pbg1nCujfKBbKD5cTH4g@mail.gmail.com>
* Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > The canonical extension of that would be to create .kvmtool/ in $CWD
> > and to union-mount the files in the current directory on top of the
> > .kvmtool 'binary environment' - or such.
>
> Union mount is off the table for now because neither overlayfs nor
> union mounts are in Linus' tree.
>
> > Or, an approximation of that would be to simply mount $CWD as /home
> > of the guest environment.
> >
> > Thus $CWD/.kvmtool/default/ would be the default root fs (multiple
> > instances can be created), and $CWD would be the default /home or
> > /host filesystem.
>
> I like it!
>
> Should we also introduce KVMTOOLDIR environment variable (much like
> GIT_DIR) that can override the default $CWD?
Per KISS i'd suggest to only implement it on request - but allow an
option to point to whatever explicit combination of rootfs and
hostfs.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-14 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-13 9:32 [PATCH 1/7] kvm tools: Fix spelling mistake Sasha Levin
2011-10-13 9:32 ` [PATCH 2/7] kvm tools: Use compat message per device instead of per instance Sasha Levin
2011-10-13 9:32 ` [PATCH 3/7] kvm tools: Improve compat message Sasha Levin
2011-10-13 9:32 ` [PATCH 4/7] kvm tools: Add basic help when starting 'kvm' without args Sasha Levin
2011-10-13 9:32 ` [PATCH 5/7] kvm tools: Add help and info messages to 'kvm setup' Sasha Levin
2011-10-13 10:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-10-13 10:08 ` Sasha Levin
2011-10-13 16:38 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-13 16:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-10-13 18:22 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-14 1:02 ` Asias He
2011-10-14 6:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-10-14 6:20 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-10-14 6:51 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-10-13 9:32 ` [PATCH 6/7] kvm tools: Modify 'kvm setup' parameters Sasha Levin
2011-10-13 9:32 ` [PATCH 7/7] kvm tools: Add option to list rootfs in 'kvm list' Sasha Levin
2011-10-13 16:40 ` Pekka Enberg
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