[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
Here is fine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is also a good place since virtio is not kvm specific.
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.
There was some work using the plan 9 filesystem protocol over virtio. Not sure where that stands. You could base your work off that.
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.
It ought to be possible; the Windows smb stack works without a block device.
My host OS is Linux, Guest OS is Windows XP. Maybe I should start with a Linux/Linux setup and get that working first ?
That's definitely a good idea. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
