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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvm tools: Add virtio-9p
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 20:40:23 +0200
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* 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