[Qemu-devel] Re: [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

[Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:01 PM, 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"?)
>
> Regards,
> Mohammed
>

P.S.: A gentle reminder. The proposal submission deadline is tomorrow,
so I'd appreciate responses as soon as possible.

Regards,
Mohammed