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

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

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:11 PM, jvrao <jvrao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Please look at our recent set of patches.
> We are developing a 9P server for QEMU and client is already part of mainline Linux.
> Our goal is to optimize it for virualization environment and will work as FS pass-through
> mechanism between host and the guest.
>
> Here is the latest set of patches..
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg29267.html
>
> Please let us know if you are interested ... we can coordinate.
>
> Thanks,
> JV
>

I'd be interested indeed.

>>>
>>> 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.
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