Re: [Virtio-fs] fedora packages for virtiofsd

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Daniel Walsh (dwalsh@redhat.com) wrote:
> On 2/14/20 2:44 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > * Vivek Goyal (vgoyal@redhat.com) wrote:
> >> Hi David,
> >>
> >> Are fedora packages for latest qemu with virtiofsd now available. Can one
> >> try it?
> >>
> >> Dan Walsh and Mrunal are looking for it (CCed in email).
> >>
> >> Keeping this thread on virtio-fs list as others might be interested as
> >> well.
> > Cole has got it into the virt-preview copr:
> >
> >  https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/virtmaint-sig/virt-preview
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >> Thanks
> >> Vivek
> > --
> > Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
> 
> How soon can we get this into Fedora.  I really do not want to have to
> deal with special packages, that users can not easily get a hold of.  I
> am real apprehensive on giving the go-ahead on a project as being
> Enterprise ready until it gets some soak time in Fedora.  I would love
> to see this available in Fedora 32, so people can start experimenting
> with it.

Understood.
It's upstream in the current QEMU tree, but it's due for release end of
April which is I assume too late for F32.
 (libvirt is still a work in progress).

I'll leave Cole to comment on Fedora backporting.

Dave

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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK