Luiz Capitulino wrote: > 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. Please look at our recent set of patches. We are developing a 9P server for QEMU and client is already part of mainline Linux. Our goal is to optimize it for virualization environment and will work as FS pass-through mechanism between host and the guest. Here is the latest set of patches.. http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@xxxxxxxxxx/msg29267.html Please let us know if you are interested ... we can coordinate. Thanks, JV >> >> 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
