On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 18:01:01 +0200 Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > Now that Cam is almost done with his ivshmem patches, I was thinking > of another idea for GSoC which is improving the pass-though > filesystems. > I've got some questions on that: > > 1- What does the community prefer to use and improve? CIFS, 9p, or > both? And which is better taken up for GSoC. > > 2- With respect to CIFS. I wonder how the shares are supposed to be > exposed to the guest. Should the Samba server be modified to be able > to use unix domain sockets instead of TCP ports and then QEMU > communicating on these sockets. With that approach, how should the > guest be able to see the exposed share? And what is the problem of > using Samba with TCP ports? > > 3- In addition, I see the idea mentions that some Windows code needs > to be written to use network shares on a special interface. What's > that interface? And what's the nature of that Windows code? (a driver > a la "guest additions"?) CC'ing Aneesh as he's working on that. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
