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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@guerrag.com>
Cc: Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	Cam Macdonell <cam@cs.ualberta.ca>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:29:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100411222958.GB27990@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y2u90eb1dc71004101735x2a138e6bpd2e391a598b983@mail.gmail.com>

Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal005@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> wrote:
> >> To throw a spanner in, the most widely supported filesystem across
> >> operating systems is probably NFS, version 2 :-)
> >
> > Remember that Windows usage on a VM is not some rare use case, and
> > it'd be a little bit of a pain from a user's perspective to have to
> > install a third party NFS client for every VM they use. Having
> > something supported on the VM out of the box is a better option IMO.
> 
> i don't think virtio-CIFS has any more support out of the box (on any
> system) than virtio-9P.

It doesn't, but at least network-CIFS tends to work ok and is the
method of choice for Windows VMs - when you can setup Samba on the
host (which as previously noted you cannot always do non-disruptively
with current Sambas).

-- Jamie

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-11 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-08 16:01 [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support Mohammed Gamal
2010-04-08 16:01 ` [Qemu-devel] " Mohammed Gamal
2010-04-08 16:02 ` Mohammed Gamal
2010-04-08 16:02   ` [Qemu-devel] " Mohammed Gamal
2010-04-08 16:23   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-04-08 16:23     ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2010-04-09 13:18 ` [Qemu-devel] " Luiz Capitulino
2010-04-09 17:11   ` jvrao
2010-04-09 17:11     ` jvrao
2010-04-09 17:23     ` Mohammed Gamal
2010-04-09 17:23       ` Mohammed Gamal
2010-04-09 21:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-09 22:17   ` Mohammed Gamal
2010-04-09 22:22     ` Javier Guerra Giraldez
2010-04-09 22:22       ` Javier Guerra Giraldez
2010-04-09 22:34       ` Mohammed Gamal
2010-04-09 22:34         ` Mohammed Gamal
2010-04-10 12:12         ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-10 12:12           ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-10 12:42           ` Mohammed Gamal
2010-04-10 12:42             ` Mohammed Gamal
2010-04-11  0:35             ` Javier Guerra Giraldez
2010-04-11  0:35               ` Javier Guerra Giraldez
2010-04-11 22:29               ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2010-04-12  8:15                 ` Mohammed Gamal
2010-04-12  8:15                   ` Mohammed Gamal
2010-04-12  8:59                   ` Alexander Graf
2010-04-12  8:59                     ` Alexander Graf
2010-04-12 12:04                     ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-12 12:04                       ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-12 12:10                       ` Alexander Graf
2010-04-12 12:10                         ` Alexander Graf
2010-04-12 11:58                   ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-12 11:58                     ` Jamie Lokier
2010-04-12 12:14                     ` Alexander Graf
2010-04-12 12:14                       ` Alexander Graf
2010-04-12 15:43                       ` jvrao
2010-04-12 15:43                         ` jvrao
2010-04-13 19:08                         ` jvrao
2010-04-13 20:17                           ` Mohammed Gamal
2010-04-13 20:17                             ` Mohammed Gamal
2010-04-19 22:54                             ` jvrao
2010-04-20  4:26                               ` Mohammed Gamal
2010-04-20  4:26                                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Mohammed Gamal
2010-04-20 18:36                                 ` jvrao
2010-04-21  4:20                                   ` Mohammed Gamal
2010-04-21  6:33                                     ` jvrao
2010-04-12 15:16   ` jvrao
2010-04-12 15:16     ` jvrao

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