[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen
Hi Wei, On 01/21/2016 06:59 PM, Wei Liu wrote: > 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. > I'm a bit confused, can't we just use the VirtFS of Qemu? E.g ./configure --with-extra-qemuu-configure-args="--enable-virtfs" Thanks, Bob > 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. > _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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