On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 16:30 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Fri, 20 May 2011, Sasha Levin wrote: > > This is the implementation of (most of) the original > > 9p2000 protocol, without the .u or the .l extensions. > > > > How to use: > > 1. Make sure kernel is compiled with: > > CONFIG_NET_9P=y > > CONFIG_NET_9P_VIRTIO=y > > CONFIG_NET_9P_DEBUG=y (At least until code is stable) > > CONFIG_9P_FS=y > > > > 2. Start KVM with '--virtio-9p <dirname>'. What happens now is that > > a virtio transport with the name 'kvm_9p' is created. The server side > > of the transport maps dirname to the root of the file system. > > > > 3. Within the guest, mount the fs: > > mount -t 9p -otrans=virtio kvm_9p <local_dir> -oversion=9p2000 > > This will mount the 9p server to local_dir. > > > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx> > > This is super cool feature, Sasha! Applied! > > Would it be possible to have some test case for 'make check' that > mounts a host directory in the guest? It'd be really helpful in > making sure we don't break it. > > Other thing is to make the hypervisor and guest kernel work > together to automatically mount part of the host filesystem > in the guest. I'll do these two once I'm done monkeying with E820 later today :) Regarding the second one, as we discussed - actually mounting it on the guest will require a kernel patch, so it'll take some time. -- Sasha. -- 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
