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From: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvm tools: Add virtio-9p
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 13:35:31 +0300
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On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 09:38 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Overview:
> > 9p allows for simple RPC based resource sharing over
> > different transports (in our case, virtio).
> >
> > This is the implementation of (most of) the original
> > 9p2000 protocol, without the .u or the .l extensions.
> >
> > How to use:
> > 1. Make sure kernel is compiled with:
> >    CONFIG_NET_9P=y
> >    CONFIG_NET_9P_VIRTIO=y
> >    CONFIG_NET_9P_DEBUG=y (At least until code is stable)
> >    CONFIG_9P_FS=y
> >
> > 2. Start KVM with '--virtio-9p <dirname>'. What happens now is that
> > a virtio transport with the name 'kvm_9p' is created. The server side
> > of the transport maps dirname to the root of the file system.
> >
> > 3. Within the guest, mount the fs:
> > mount -t 9p -otrans=virtio kvm_9p <local_dir> -oversion=9p2000
> > This will mount the 9p server to local_dir.
> 
> This is really cool, Sasha! I'd like to see host "/" mounted as
> "/host" automatically in the guest. If that's too radical, we could go
> for mounting $HOME. I guess it's pretty trivial to do on the
> hypervisor side but can we do that for unmodified guests (not
> necessarily unmodified guest kernels, though)?
> 
>                          Pekka

I'm not sure how to do the guest part automatically, it's just a simple
mount command - but I don't see how we can do it in a simple manner.

-- 

Sasha.