On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nevermind that running virtfs as a rootfs is a really dumb idea. You > do now want to run a VM that has a rootfs that gets changed all the > time behind your back. It's rootfs binaries that are shared, not configuration. It's unfortunate but works OK for the single user use case it's meant for. It's obviously not a proper solution for the generic case. We were hoping that we could use something like overlayfs to hide the issue under the rug. Do you think that's also a really dumb thing to do? Using block device snapshotting would be interesting and we should definitely look into that. Pekka -- 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