Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvm tools: Add virtio-9p

Ingo Molnar
2011-05-17T18:40:27Z

* Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Really cool!

> Still todo (but can live without):
> - Multiple virtio-9p devices.
> - Ugly hack in virtio_p9_stat() (See desc in code).
> - Update atime/mtime in p9_wstat, not really needed.
> - Pass usernames in p9_stat, not really needed and not really sure how
> p9 expects to handle them.

is root-9p possible? I.e. ideally i'd like to have no image at all - just a
guest kernel and a directory hierarchy for the guest filesystem.

Ingo