From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 10:50:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56A0B7E0.20606@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160121102844.GP1691@citrix.com>
On 21/01/16 10:28, Wei Liu wrote:
> [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen
>
> # Introduction
>
> QEMU/KVM supports file system passthrough via an interface called
> VirtFS [0]. VirtFS is in turn implemented with 9pfs protocol [1] and
> VirtIO transport.
>
> Xen used to have its own implementation of file system passthrough
> called XenFS, but that has been inactive for a few years. The latest
> update was in 2009 [2].
>
> This project aims to add VirtFS support on Xen. This is more
> sustainable than inventing our own wheel.#
What's the use case for this? Who wants this feature?
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-21 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-21 10:28 [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen Wei Liu
2016-01-21 10:50 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2016-01-21 10:59 ` Wei Liu
2016-01-22 10:45 ` Bob Liu
2016-01-22 10:50 ` Wei Liu
2016-01-22 11:12 ` Paul Durrant
2016-01-22 11:31 ` Wei Liu
2016-01-23 5:33 ` Bob Liu
2016-01-23 14:50 ` Wei Liu
2016-01-23 15:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-01-25 11:29 ` Wei Liu
2016-01-25 11:35 ` David Vrabel
2016-01-25 15:13 ` Wei Liu
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