From: Linda <lindaj@jma3.com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>, Neil Sikka <neilsikka@gmail.com>
Cc: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: 9p file system for xen
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 09:23:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <564DF774.70602@jma3.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151119150338.GU1495@citrix.com>
Hi Wei,
On 11/19/2015 8:03 AM, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 09:55:00AM -0500, Neil Sikka wrote:
>> Is there any documentation about planned interfaces and API contracts for
>> people building around the virtio/9pfs layers? For example, while this is
> I assume that you're interested in getting 9pfs to work but don't care
> much about how it is made to work? I ask because I'm a bit confused by
> the notion of "virtio/9pfs" because what Linda did wasn't based on
> virtio transport.
A clarification: If you mean the virtio 9pfs transport, my code is
based on that, and sits on top of it.
>
>> still getting debugged/checked in, in order to build DomU support for these
>> devices, the expected API contracts/interfaces would need to be known.
>>
> I'm not sure I get your question. What do you mean by "build DomU
> support"? What kind of DomU support needs insider knowledge of how 9pfs
> is setup? Are you talking about your own management stack that starts
> VM?
>
> Wei.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-19 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-13 17:23 9p file system for xen Linda
2015-11-16 15:16 ` Wei Liu
2015-11-16 16:36 ` Linda
2015-11-16 16:51 ` Wei Liu
2015-11-16 17:22 ` Linda
2015-11-16 17:35 ` Wei Liu
2015-11-17 3:02 ` Linda
2015-11-17 18:35 ` Neil Sikka
2015-11-17 19:50 ` Linda
2015-11-18 9:56 ` Wei Liu
2015-11-19 14:55 ` Neil Sikka
2015-11-19 15:03 ` Wei Liu
2015-11-19 16:23 ` Linda [this message]
2015-11-23 15:51 ` Neil Sikka
2015-11-23 16:05 ` Wei Liu
2015-11-30 17:19 ` Neil Sikka
2015-12-01 11:47 ` Wei Liu
2015-12-01 14:37 ` Linda
2015-12-01 14:46 ` Wei Liu
2015-12-01 15:27 ` Linda
2015-12-02 17:40 ` Linda
2015-11-19 15:05 ` Wei Liu
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