[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:50:08AM +0000, David Vrabel wrote: > On 21/01/16 10:28, Wei Liu wrote: > > [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen > > > > # Introduction > > > > QEMU/KVM supports file system passthrough via an interface called > > VirtFS [0]. VirtFS is in turn implemented with 9pfs protocol [1] and > > VirtIO transport. > > > > Xen used to have its own implementation of file system passthrough > > called XenFS, but that has been inactive for a few years. The latest > > update was in 2009 [2]. > > > > This project aims to add VirtFS support on Xen. This is more > > sustainable than inventing our own wheel.# > > What's the use case for this? Who wants this feature? > Anyone who wants file system passthrough. More specifically, VM-based container solutions can share files from host file system. http://xendevsummit2015.sched.org/event/3WDg/xen-containers-better-way-to-run-docker-containers-sainath-grandhi-intel?iframe=no&w=&sidebar=yes&bg=no http://xendevsummit2015.sched.org/event/3X1L/hyper-make-vm-run-like-containers-xu-wang-hyper?iframe=no&w=&sidebar=yes&bg=no Wei. > David _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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