You can as well try Qemu-GuestAgent which uses Virtio-Serial communication for Guest and Host. -----Original Message----- From: kvm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kvm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thomas Huth Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 3:54 PM To: Ross Boylan Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: How to share filesystem Am Tue, 24 Sep 2013 01:38:39 -0700 schrieb Ross Boylan <ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I would like to have access to the same file system from the host and > the guest. Can anyone recommend the best way to do this, considering > ease of use, safety (concurrent access from guest and host does not > corrupt) and performance? [...] > Among the alternatives I can think of are using NFS and using NBD. > Maybe there's some kind of loopback device I could use on the disk > image to access it from the host. I've never tried it on my own, but there is also virtio-9p: http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup Maybe that's what you need? Thomas -- 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 -- 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
