All
I am new to this mailing list, so please let me know if I am in the wrong
place or asking questions in a way I shouldn't.
I was wondering if anyone had thought about creating a virtio file system,
rather than using a block device and hence a single file on the host OS as
the virtio block device already does, but map file system calls on the
guest OS to file system calls on the host OS through the virtio interface.
In this way the Guest OS could share files with the Host OS without needing
to use Samba, which from my current experiences is rather slow.
I have started to play with the idea a little myself, but my biggest
problem is that I have no clue how to write filesystem drives in my Guest
OS, Window XP, or even if it is possible to get a Windows FileSystem driver
to talk directly to a PCI device, or if some kind of dummy block device
would be needed.
My host OS is Linux, Guest OS is Windows XP. Maybe I should start with a
Linux/Linux setup and get that working first ?
Any comments, suggests, problems that you can see with this idea would be
great.
Thanks,
Scott.
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