Re: [PATCH 5/7] kvm tools: Add help and info messages to 'kvm setup'

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On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> The canonical extension of that would be to create .kvmtool/ in $CWD
> and to union-mount the files in the current directory on top of the
> .kvmtool 'binary environment' - or such.

Union mount is off the table for now because neither overlayfs nor
union mounts are in Linus' tree.

> Or, an approximation of that would be to simply mount $CWD as /home
> of the guest environment.
>
> Thus $CWD/.kvmtool/default/ would be the default root fs (multiple
> instances can be created), and $CWD would be the default /home or
> /host filesystem.

I like it!

Should we also introduce KVMTOOLDIR environment variable (much like
GIT_DIR) that can override the default $CWD?

                        Pekka
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