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 15:23:42 +0300 Message-ID: <1305721422.12150.113.camel@sasha> References: <1305657337-2584-1-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com> <1305657337-2584-2-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com> <20110517184023.GC16689@elte.hu> <1305659307.12150.37.camel@sasha> <1305664052.12150.43.camel@sasha> <1305720090.12150.106.camel@sasha> <20110518120658.GB6210@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: penberg@kernel.org, asias.hejun@gmail.com, prasadjoshi124@gmail.com, gorcunov@gmail.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Eric Van Hensbergen To: Ingo Molnar Return-path: Received: from mail-ww0-f42.google.com ([74.125.82.42]:42941 "EHLO mail-ww0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933012Ab1ERMXq (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2011 08:23:46 -0400 Received: by wwk4 with SMTP id 4so4554523wwk.1 for ; Wed, 18 May 2011 05:23:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110518120658.GB6210@elte.hu> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 14:06 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Sasha Levin wrote: > > > When trying to boot a distribution rootfs we get a lot of symbolic link and > > file locking errors, since neither of those is supported by legacy 9p2000 - > > thats understandable. It just prevents from almost anything more complicated > > than simple command line from working properly. > > Just curious: are there plans to improving this situation in the future? Current implementation can be extended to support 9p2000.u extensions, RFC simplicity suggests it should be pretty simple. -- Sasha.