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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:23:31 +0100
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.
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On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 1- What does the community prefer to use and improve? CIFS, 9p, or
>> both? And which is better taken up for GSoC.

There have been recent patches for filesystem passthrough using 9P:

http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg28100.html

You might want to consider them if you haven't seen them already.

Stefan