Thanks Daniel. There are VirtIO drivers available for Windows, how would I know if these include VirtIO-9p? http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/results.aspx?text=Red+Hat&bCatID=1282&avc=10&ava=0&OR=5&=Go&chtext=&cstext=&csttext=&chbtext= cameron ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Cameron Smith" <cameron.smith@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Wednesday, 21 March, 2012 12:00:08 PM > Subject: Re: XML syntax for "dir" attribute when making Host directory available to Windows guest > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:32:08AM +0200, Cameron Smith wrote: > > Hi, I have the following setup: > > Host: Ubuntu 10.04 > > Guest: Windows 2008 R2 > > Kernel: 2.6.32-40-generic > > virt-inst: 0.500.1-2ubuntu6.2 > > qemu-kvm: 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.18 > > > > All is working, however I would now like to share a given directory > > on the host with the guest. Using the "virsh edit" command I > > have prepared the following XML configuration snippet: > > <filesystem type='mount'> > > <source dir='/home/cameron/zip/hla'/> > > <target dir='/mnt/hla'/> > > </filesystem> > > > > My problem is the "target" element - what value should I use in the > > "dir" attribute, given that Windows drive paths do not follow Unix > > format (e.g. "F:\" versus "/mnt/hla"). > > For virtio-9p the target is not actually a directory path, but a > "mount > tag". The guest OS itself is responsible for deciding where to mount > it. > > This is all academic for you though, since AFAIK, there is no > virtio-9p > driver available for Windows. > > > Daniel > -- > |: http://berrange.com -o- > | http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| > |: http://libvirt.org -o- > | http://virt-manager.org :| > |: http://autobuild.org -o- > | http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| > |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- > | http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| >
