From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O0MnD-0002an-Ry for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:35:15 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52378 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O0Mn8-0002Rp-SS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:35:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0MmB-0006pP-VO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:34:13 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f221.google.com ([209.85.220.221]:33514) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0MmB-0006pG-Pz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:34:11 -0400 Received: by fxm21 with SMTP id 21so2547914fxm.2 for ; Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:34:10 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20100409212212.GB31666@shareable.org> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:34:10 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support. From: Mohammed Gamal Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Javier Guerra Giraldez Cc: Anthony Liguori , Cam Macdonell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Mohammed Gamal wrote: >> That's all good and well. The question now is which direction would >> the community prefer to go. Would everyone be just happy with >> virtio-9p passthrough? Would it support multiple OSs (Windows comes to >> mind here)? Or would we eventually need to patch Samba for passthrough >> filesystems? > > found this: > > http://code.google.com/p/ninefs/ > > it's a BSD-licensed 9p client for windows.... i have no idea of how > stable / complete / trustable it is; but might be some start > > > -- > Javier > Hi Javier, Thanks for the link. However, I'm still concerned with interoperability with other operating systems, including non-Windows ones. I am not sure of how many operating systems actually support 9p, but I'm almost certain that CIFS would be more widely-supported. I am still a newbie as far as all this is concerned, so if anyone has any arguments as to whether which approach should be taken, I'd be enlightened to hear them. Regards, Mohammed