From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luiz Capitulino Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support. Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 10:18:36 -0300 Message-ID: <20100409101836.526762c8@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Anthony Liguori , Cam Macdonell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel , aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com To: Mohammed Gamal Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:22242 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751223Ab0DINSv (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Apr 2010 09:18:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 18:01:01 +0200 Mohammed Gamal wrote: > Hi, > Now that Cam is almost done with his ivshmem patches, I was thinking > of another idea for GSoC which is improving the pass-though > filesystems. > I've got some questions on that: > > 1- What does the community prefer to use and improve? CIFS, 9p, or > both? And which is better taken up for GSoC. > > 2- With respect to CIFS. I wonder how the shares are supposed to be > exposed to the guest. Should the Samba server be modified to be able > to use unix domain sockets instead of TCP ports and then QEMU > communicating on these sockets. With that approach, how should the > guest be able to see the exposed share? And what is the problem of > using Samba with TCP ports? > > 3- In addition, I see the idea mentions that some Windows code needs > to be written to use network shares on a special interface. What's > that interface? And what's the nature of that Windows code? (a driver > a la "guest additions"?) CC'ing Aneesh as he's working on that.