On Thursday, October 27, 2022 6:19:27 PM CEST Bin Meng wrote:
> Hi Christian,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 1:16 PM Bin Meng <bin.m...@windriver.com> wrote:
> >
> > At present there is no Windows support for 9p file system.
> > This series adds initial Windows support for 9p file system.
> >
> > 'local' file system backend driver is supported on Windows,
> > including open, read, write, close, rename, remove, etc.
> > All security models are supported. The mapped (mapped-xattr)
> > security model is implemented using NTFS Alternate Data Stream
> > (ADS) so the 9p export path shall be on an NTFS partition.
> >
> > 'synth' driver is adapted for Windows too so that we can now
> > run qtests on Windows for 9p related regression testing.
> >
> > Example command line to test:
> >
> >   "-fsdev local,path=c:\msys64,security_model=mapped,id=p9 -device 
> > virtio-9p-pci,fsdev=p9,mount_tag=p9fs"
> >
> >
> > Bin Meng (5):
> >   qemu/xattr.h: Exclude <sys/xattr.h> for Windows
> >   hw/9pfs: Drop unnecessary *xattr wrapper API declarations
> >   hw/9pfs: Replace the direct call to xxxat() APIs with a wrapper
> >   hw/9pfs: Introduce an opaque type 9P_FILE_ID
> >   hw/9pfs: Update P9_FILE_ID to support Windows
> >
> > Guohuai Shi (11):
> >   hw/9pfs: Add missing definitions for Windows
> >   hw/9pfs: Implement Windows specific utilities functions for 9pfs
> >   hw/9pfs: Handle current directory offset for Windows
> >   hw/9pfs: Disable unsupported flags and features for Windows
> >   hw/9pfs: Update the local fs driver to support Windows
> >   hw/9pfs: Add Linux error number definition
> >   hw/9pfs: Translate Windows errno to Linux value
> >   fsdev: Disable proxy fs driver on Windows
> >   hw/9pfs: Update synth fs driver for Windows
> >   tests/qtest: virtio-9p-test: Adapt the case for win32
> >   meson.build: Turn on virtfs for Windows
> >
> 
> With the latest 9p test case refactoring in the mainline, I will have
> to cherry-pick the following 2 patches in this series, to v6 of
> "tests/qtest: Enable running qtest on Windows" series [1], in order to
> get qtest on Windows build successfully.
> 
> [06/16] hw/9pfs: Add missing definitions for Windows
> [15/16] tests/qtest: virtio-9p-test: Adapt the case for win32
> 
> I will include the above 2 patches in the v6 qtest windows support series.

No need to add those patches as they are already being queued separately. Just
add appropriate tag(s) to the first patch:

Based-on: <MESSAGE-ID>

I already had a quick look on this version, will try to give feedback
tomorrow.

This feature won't make it into 7.2 release anyway, so patience please. ;-)

Best regards,
Christian Schoenebeck

> [1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/qemu-devel/list/?series=321695
> 
> Regards,
> Bin
> 



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