From: Harald Hoyer <harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh-OLH4Qvv75CYX/NnBR394Jw@public.gmane.org>
Cc: initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH,RFC] virtfs root filesystem support
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:15:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F8FE5A5.7000300@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120415004017.GI28523-OLH4Qvv75CYX/NnBR394Jw@public.gmane.org>
Am 15.04.2012 02:40, schrieb Lennert Buytenhek:
> Qemu/KVM provides virtfs, a paravirtualised filesystem that is
> implemented by running the Plan 9 folder sharing protocol over
> virtio.
>
> Make booting with root=virtfs:foobar use the virtfs filesystem
> with mount tag 'foobar' as root filesystem, to allow booting
> virtual machines off virtfs.
>
> Note that this only handles 9p over virtio (i.e. virtfs), and
> doesn't attempt to handle mounting 9p filesystems over TCP/IP,
> for example.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh-OLH4Qvv75CYX/NnBR394Jw@public.gmane.org>
>
pushed... and yes we should factor out the mount somehow
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2012-04-15 0:40 [PATCH,RFC] virtfs root filesystem support Lennert Buytenhek
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