* Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Per KISS i'd suggest to only implement it on request - but allow an option to point to whatever explicit combination of rootfs and hostfs. 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
