From: Ross Boylan <ross@biostat.ucsf.edu>
To: Thomas Huth <thuth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to share filesystem
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:37:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1380040667.26394.21.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130924122429.7eed47ff@thhw500>
On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 12:24 +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Am Tue, 24 Sep 2013 01:38:39 -0700
> schrieb Ross Boylan <ross@biostat.ucsf.edu>:
>
> > I would like to have access to the same file system from the host and
> > the guest. Can anyone recommend the best way to do this, considering
> > ease of use, safety (concurrent access from guest and host does not
> > corrupt) and performance?
> [...]
> > Among the alternatives I can think of are using NFS and using NBD.
> > Maybe there's some kind of loopback device I could use on the disk image
> > to access it from the host.
>
> I've never tried it on my own, but there is also virtio-9p:
>
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup
>
> Maybe that's what you need?
>
> Thomas
>
At first I saw Plan 9 and figured it was irrelevant to linux, but the
example seems to be Linux. So I'm puzzled.
Ross
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-24 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-24 8:38 How to share filesystem Ross Boylan
2013-09-24 10:24 ` Thomas Huth
2013-09-24 11:24 ` P Balaji-B37839
2013-09-24 16:37 ` Ross Boylan [this message]
2013-09-24 19:03 ` shendl1978
2013-09-24 19:06 ` shendl1978
2013-09-24 19:56 ` Ross Boylan
2013-09-25 14:49 ` Brian Jackson
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