From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support. Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:29:58 +0100 Message-ID: <20100411222958.GB27990@shareable.org> References: <20100409212212.GB31666@shareable.org> <20100410121247.GA18080@shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Mohammed Gamal , Anthony Liguori , Cam Macdonell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel To: Javier Guerra Giraldez Return-path: Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:60247 "EHLO mail2.shareable.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753129Ab0DKWaE (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:30:04 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Mohammed Gamal wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Jamie Lokier 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