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Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 10:18:36 -0300
From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.
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To: Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Cam Macdonell <cam@cs.ualberta.ca>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com

On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 18:01:01 +0200
Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com> 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.