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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] kvm tools: Add help and info messages to 'kvm setup'
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:51:44 +0200
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* Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > The canonical extension of that would be to create .kvmtool/ in $CWD
> > and to union-mount the files in the current directory on top of the
> > .kvmtool 'binary environment' - or such.
> 
> Union mount is off the table for now because neither overlayfs nor
> union mounts are in Linus' tree.
> 
> > Or, an approximation of that would be to simply mount $CWD as /home
> > of the guest environment.
> >
> > Thus $CWD/.kvmtool/default/ would be the default root fs (multiple
> > instances can be created), and $CWD would be the default /home or
> > /host filesystem.
> 
> I like it!
> 
> Should we also introduce KVMTOOLDIR environment variable (much like 
> GIT_DIR) that can override the default $CWD?

Per KISS i'd suggest to only implement it on request - but allow an 
option to point to whatever explicit combination of rootfs and 
hostfs.

Thanks,

	Ingo