From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sasha Levin Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvm tools: Add virtio-9p Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 13:47:25 +0300 Message-ID: <1305715645.12150.80.camel@sasha> References: <1305657337-2584-1-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com> <1305657337-2584-2-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com> <1305714931.12150.76.camel@sasha> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mingo@elte.hu, asias.hejun@gmail.com, prasadjoshi124@gmail.com, gorcunov@gmail.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Eric Van Hensbergen , jvrao To: Pekka Enberg Return-path: Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:54672 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756943Ab1ERKr3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2011 06:47:29 -0400 Received: by wwa36 with SMTP id 36so1566164wwa.1 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 03:47:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 13:38 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: > > 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. > > IIRC, Ingo suggested a kernel config option - a kernel parameter might > also work. Eric, Ingo, thoughts? Ingo suggested kernel config option to allow booting from 9p (similarly to NFS), but thats not needed at the moment - we can boot 9p just as any other fs if we name our virtio transport right. We can add a more generic kernel parameter that will mount simple filesystem[s] after mounting rootfs (something like the root= option, but for non-root systems). -- Sasha.