* Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 13:38 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I'm not sure how to do the guest part automatically, it's just a simple > > > mount command - but I don't see how we can do it in a simple manner. > > > > IIRC, Ingo suggested a kernel config option - a kernel parameter might > > also work. Eric, Ingo, thoughts? > > Ingo suggested kernel config option to allow booting from 9p (similarly > to NFS), but thats not needed at the moment - we can boot 9p just as any > other fs if we name our virtio transport right. > > We can add a more generic kernel parameter that will mount simple > filesystem[s] after mounting rootfs (something like the root= option, > but for non-root systems). Correct, and yes it should be a separate thing (and we still want it): just like there's a .config option to mount devtmpfs under /dev automatically, see CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y. Thanks, Ingo -- 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
