I have a few KVM systems that use 9p to pass GPFS through and it does just
work; although I've not really benchmarked or pushed it yet.
Regarding licencing, its my understanding that the guest inherits the hosts
licence i.e. if you have a client license on the host all vms are covered by
the same license (iirc there is a core/socket caveat) So that is worth
exploring further.
-- Lauz
On 5 May 2016 09:33:45 BST, Stijn De Weirdt <[email protected]> wrote:
>hi all,
>
>
>we are examining the possibility to give VMs access to GPFS mounted on
>the hypervisors. (use cases are readonly or read-mostly access to the
>data on gpfs, the hypervisors have IB, the vms not yet; and we have no
>idea how to handle possible explosion of gpfs client licenses if we
>mount gpfs inside the VMs ;)
>
>has anyone experience with using the 9p filesystem passthrough and gpfs
>with qemu/kvm?
>
>many thanks,
>
>stijn
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