Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-20 Thread jvrao
Mohammed Gamal wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:36 PM, jvrao wrote: > > ... ... > >>> This'd be something interesting to do. I wonder if that would fit in >>> the GSoC timeframe, or whether it'd be a little too short. So how long >>> you'd estimate something like that would take? >> I think i

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-20 Thread Mohammed Gamal
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:36 PM, jvrao wrote: ... ... >> This'd be something interesting to do. I wonder if that would fit in >> the GSoC timeframe, or whether it'd be a little too short. So how long >> you'd estimate something like that would take? > > I think it would take ~3PM for someone wi

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-20 Thread jvrao
Mohammed Gamal wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:54 AM, jvrao wrote: >> Mohammed Gamal wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:08 PM, jvrao wrote: jvrao wrote: > Alexander Graf wrote: >> On 12.04.2010, at 13:58, Jamie Lokier wrote: >> >>> Mohammed Gamal wrote: On Mon,

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-19 Thread Mohammed Gamal
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:54 AM, jvrao wrote: > Mohammed Gamal wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:08 PM, jvrao wrote: >>> jvrao wrote: Alexander Graf wrote: > On 12.04.2010, at 13:58, Jamie Lokier wrote: > >> Mohammed Gamal wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Jamie

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-19 Thread jvrao
Mohammed Gamal wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:08 PM, jvrao wrote: >> jvrao wrote: >>> Alexander Graf wrote: On 12.04.2010, at 13:58, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Mohammed Gamal wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Jamie Lokier >> wrote: >>> Javier Guerra Giraldez wr

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-13 Thread Mohammed Gamal
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:08 PM, jvrao wrote: > jvrao wrote: >> Alexander Graf wrote: >>> On 12.04.2010, at 13:58, Jamie Lokier wrote: >>> Mohammed Gamal wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Jamie Lokier > wrote: >> Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: >>> On Sat, Apr 10, 201

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-13 Thread jvrao
jvrao wrote: > Alexander Graf wrote: >> On 12.04.2010, at 13:58, Jamie Lokier wrote: >> >>> Mohammed Gamal wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Mohammed Gamal >> wrote: >>> On Sat, Ap

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-12 Thread jvrao
Alexander Graf wrote: > On 12.04.2010, at 13:58, Jamie Lokier wrote: > >> Mohammed Gamal wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Jamie Lokier wrote: 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,

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-12 Thread jvrao
Jamie Lokier wrote: > Mohammed Gamal wrote: >> 2- With respect to CIFS. I wonder how the shares are supposed to be >> exposed to the guest. Should the Samba server be modified to be able >> to use unix domain sockets instead of TCP ports and then QEMU >> communicating on these sockets. With that ap

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-12 Thread Alexander Graf
On 12.04.2010, at 13:58, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Mohammed Gamal wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Jamie Lokier wrote: >>> 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

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-12 Thread Alexander Graf
On 12.04.2010, at 14:04, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Alexander Graf wrote: >> Also since -net user does support samba exporting already, > > This I'm interested in. Last time I tried to use it, the "smb=" > option didn't work because Samba refused to run when launched with > qemu's mini config file a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-12 Thread Jamie Lokier
Alexander Graf wrote: > Also since -net user does support samba exporting already, This I'm interested in. Last time I tried to use it, the "smb=" option didn't work because Samba refused to run when launched with qemu's mini config file and launched as a regular user. It needed access to variou

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-12 Thread Jamie Lokier
Mohammed Gamal wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > 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 sup

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-12 Thread Alexander Graf
On 12.04.2010, at 10:15, Mohammed Gamal wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Jamie Lokier wrote: >> 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 mos

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-12 Thread Mohammed Gamal
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Jamie Lokier wrote: > 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 syste

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-11 Thread Jamie Lokier
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 Windo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-10 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
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

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-10 Thread Mohammed Gamal
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Mohammed Gamal wrote: >> Hi Javier, >> Thanks for the link. However, I'm still concerned with >> interoperability with other operating systems, including non-Windows >> ones. I am not sure of how many operating systems actually support 9p, >>

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-10 Thread Jamie Lokier
Mohammed Gamal wrote: > Hi Javier, > Thanks for the link. However, I'm still concerned with > interoperability with other operating systems, including non-Windows > ones. I am not sure of how many operating systems actually support 9p, > but I'm almost certain that CIFS would be more widely-support

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-09 Thread Mohammed Gamal
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Mohammed Gamal wrote: >> That's all good and well. The question now is which direction would >> the community prefer to go. Would everyone be just happy with >> virtio-9p passthrough? Would it suppor

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-09 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Mohammed Gamal wrote: > That's all good and well. The question now is which direction would > the community prefer to go. Would everyone be just happy with > virtio-9p passthrough? Would it support multiple OSs (Windows comes to > mind here)? Or would we eventually

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-09 Thread Mohammed Gamal
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Mohammed Gamal wrote: >> 2- With respect to CIFS. I wonder how the shares are supposed to be >> exposed to the guest. Should the Samba server be modified to be able >> to use unix domain sockets instead of TCP ports and then QEMU >> communicat

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-09 Thread Jamie Lokier
Mohammed Gamal wrote: > 2- With respect to CIFS. I wonder how the shares are supposed to be > exposed to the guest. Should the Samba server be modified to be able > to use unix domain sockets instead of TCP ports and then QEMU > communicating on these sockets. With that approach, how should the > g

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-09 Thread Mohammed Gamal
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:11 PM, jvrao wrote: > Luiz Capitulino wrote: >> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 18:01:01 +0200 >> Mohammed Gamal wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> Now that Cam is almost done with his ivshmem patches, I was thinking >>> of another idea for GSoC which is improving the pass-though >>> filesystems.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-09 Thread jvrao
Luiz Capitulino wrote: > On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 18:01:01 +0200 > Mohammed Gamal wrote: > >> Hi, >> Now that Cam is almost done with his ivshmem patches, I was thinking >> of another idea for GSoC which is improving the pass-though >> filesystems. >> I've got some questions on that: >> >> 1- What does

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-09 Thread Luiz Capitulino
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 18:01:01 +0200 Mohammed Gamal wrote: > Hi, > Now that Cam is almost done with his ivshmem patches, I was thinking > of another idea for GSoC which is improving the pass-though > filesystems. > I've got some questions on that: > > 1- What does the community prefer to use and im

Re: [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-08 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Mohammed Gamal wrote: > On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Mohammed Gamal wrote: >> 1- What does the community prefer to use and improve? CIFS, 9p, or >> both? And which is better taken up for GSoC. There have been recent patches for filesystem passthrough using 9P:

Re: [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-08 Thread Mohammed Gamal
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Mohammed Gamal wrote: > Hi, > Now that Cam is almost done with his ivshmem patches, I was thinking > of another idea for GSoC which is improving the pass-though > filesystems. > I've got some questions on that: > > 1- What does the community prefer to use and improv

[GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-08 Thread Mohammed Gamal
Hi, Now that Cam is almost done with his ivshmem patches, I was thinking of another idea for GSoC which is improving the pass-though filesystems. I've got some questions on that: 1- What does the community prefer to use and improve? CIFS, 9p, or both? And which is better taken up for GSoC. 2- Wit