From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O0lEq-0003Sp-BC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:41:24 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44626 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O0lEp-0003S8-AQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:41:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0lEn-0003aS-VR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:41:23 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f194.google.com ([209.85.223.194]:47056) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O0lEn-0003a2-SM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:41:21 -0400 Received: by iwn32 with SMTP id 32so3035980iwn.18 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:41:18 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20100409212212.GB31666@shareable.org> <20100410121247.GA18080@shareable.org> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:35:46 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support. From: Javier Guerra Giraldez Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Mohammed Gamal Cc: Anthony Liguori , Cam Macdonell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Mohammed Gamal wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Jamie Lokier wrote: >> To throw a spanner in, the most widely supported filesystem across >> operating systems is probably NFS, version 2 :-) > > Remember that Windows usage on a VM is not some rare use case, and > it'd be a little bit of a pain from a user's perspective to have to > install a third party NFS client for every VM they use. Having > something supported on the VM out of the box is a better option IMO. i don't think virtio-CIFS has any more support out of the box (on any system) than virtio-9P. -- Javier