The QEMU Removed Features page indicates that virtiofsd has been removed, replaced with https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd, a rust-based implementation. https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/about/removed-features.html#virtiofsd-removed-in-8-0
Browsing and searching the qemu source, it sure looks like the qemu implementation is gone. tools/virtiofsd is there in 7.2, gone in 8.0. Searching a bit, it seems the rust implementation is Linux-only. I read this email thread as saying that’s true, with the addiitonal point that the writer had gotten some subset working for another use case. https://listman.redhat.com/archives/virtio-fs/2021-April/003021.html I've been running on a macos host and a Linux (Red Hat-based) guest. Worked fine when I had virtiofsd implementation. Alternatives? - RH seems allergic to 9P filesystem for host file access, the qemu alternative I’m finding. - Or I’m pointed to NFS which operationally I’m not wanting to do. - Ubuntu ships a 9P client. Ideally I’d not have to switch to that distribution. Anyone more clued in know if there’s some expectation / roadmap / hope that we’ll get a more portable virtiofsd on the horizon? Or is there another alternative I’m missing? John -- John Maline [email protected]
