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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 10:50:08 +0000
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On 21/01/16 10:28, Wei Liu wrote:
> [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen
> 
> # Introduction
> 
> QEMU/KVM supports file system passthrough via an interface called
> VirtFS [0]. VirtFS is in turn implemented with 9pfs protocol [1] and
> VirtIO transport.
> 
> Xen used to have its own implementation of file system passthrough
> called XenFS, but that has been inactive for a few years. The latest
> update was in 2009 [2].
> 
> This project aims to add VirtFS support on Xen. This is more
> sustainable than inventing our own wheel.#

What's the use case for this?  Who wants this feature?

David