2011/6/14 Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On 06/07/2011 05:38 AM, Matthias Bolte wrote: >> Shared folders are handled as filesystems and can also be hotplugged. >> --- >> >> Currently this just maps shared folder to a filesystem element with type >> mount. The filesystem element has an accessmode attribute that is not >> useful for VirtualBox. Als the target element only has a dir attribute, >> but VirtualBox shares doen't support that, you can only give them a name. >> >> <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'> >> <source dir='/tmp'/> >> <target dir='foobar'/> >> <readonly/> >> </filesystem> >> >> I wonder if we should add a shared folder type like this: >> >> <filesystem type='sharedfolder'> >> <source dir='/tmp'/> >> <target name='foobar'/> >> <readonly/> >> </filesystem> >> >> Or is this to specific to VirtualBox? > > This sounds kind of like the plan9 file system patch; commit a5c646a, so > type='mount' sounds reasonable to me. > >> >> VirtualBox 4.0 added the automount option that automatically mounts a >> shared folder in the guest. On Windows it is mounted to a free drive >> letter on Linux it's mounted to /media/<prefix>_<shared-folder-name>. >> The <prefix> is a global configuration option in VirtualBox. I wonder >> if and how to expose that in libvirt. > > I'm not sure I have any better ideas, but I'm happy saving that question > for a subsequent patch. > > ACK. An another forgotten patch pushed now :) -- Matthias Bolte http://photron.blogspot.com -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list