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From: Harald Hoyer <harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH,RFC] virtfs root filesystem support
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:15:01 +0200
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To: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh-OLH4Qvv75CYX/NnBR394Jw@public.gmane.org>
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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