Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-21 Thread jvrao
Mohammed Gamal wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:36 PM, jvrao jv...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: ... snip ... This'd be something interesting to do. I wonder if that would fit in the GSoC timeframe, or whether it'd be a little too short. So how long you'd estimate something like that would

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-20 Thread jvrao
Mohammed Gamal wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:54 AM, jvrao jv...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: Mohammed Gamal wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:08 PM, jvrao jv...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: jvrao wrote: Alexander Graf wrote: On 12.04.2010, at 13:58, Jamie Lokier wrote: Mohammed Gamal wrote:

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-20 Thread Mohammed Gamal
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:36 PM, jvrao jv...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: ... snip ... This'd be something interesting to do. I wonder if that would fit in the GSoC timeframe, or whether it'd be a little too short. So how long you'd estimate something like that would take? I think it would

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-19 Thread jvrao
Mohammed Gamal wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:08 PM, jvrao jv...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: jvrao wrote: Alexander Graf wrote: On 12.04.2010, at 13:58, Jamie Lokier wrote: Mohammed Gamal wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Jamie Lokier ja...@shareable.org wrote: Javier Guerra

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-19 Thread Mohammed Gamal
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:54 AM, jvrao jv...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: Mohammed Gamal wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:08 PM, jvrao jv...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: jvrao wrote: Alexander Graf wrote: On 12.04.2010, at 13:58, Jamie Lokier wrote: Mohammed Gamal wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-13 Thread Mohammed Gamal
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 9:08 PM, jvrao jv...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: jvrao wrote: Alexander Graf wrote: On 12.04.2010, at 13:58, Jamie Lokier wrote: Mohammed Gamal wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Jamie Lokier ja...@shareable.org wrote: Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: On Sat, Apr

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-12 Thread Mohammed Gamal
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Jamie Lokier ja...@shareable.org wrote: Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Mohammed Gamal m.gamal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Jamie Lokier ja...@shareable.org wrote: To throw a spanner in, the most widely

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-12 Thread Alexander Graf
On 12.04.2010, at 10:15, Mohammed Gamal wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Jamie Lokier ja...@shareable.org wrote: Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Mohammed Gamal m.gamal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Jamie Lokier

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-12 Thread Jamie Lokier
Mohammed Gamal wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Jamie Lokier ja...@shareable.org wrote: Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Mohammed Gamal m.gamal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Jamie Lokier ja...@shareable.org wrote: To

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-12 Thread Jamie Lokier
Alexander Graf wrote: Also since -net user does support samba exporting already, This I'm interested in. Last time I tried to use it, the smb= option didn't work because Samba refused to run when launched with qemu's mini config file and launched as a regular user. It needed access to various

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-12 Thread Alexander Graf
On 12.04.2010, at 14:04, Jamie Lokier wrote: Alexander Graf wrote: Also since -net user does support samba exporting already, This I'm interested in. Last time I tried to use it, the smb= option didn't work because Samba refused to run when launched with qemu's mini config file and

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-12 Thread jvrao
Alexander Graf wrote: On 12.04.2010, at 13:58, Jamie Lokier wrote: Mohammed Gamal wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Jamie Lokier ja...@shareable.org wrote: Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Mohammed Gamal m.gamal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 10,

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-11 Thread Jamie Lokier
Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Mohammed Gamal m.gamal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Jamie Lokier ja...@shareable.org wrote: To throw a spanner in, the most widely supported filesystem across operating systems is probably NFS, version 2

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-10 Thread Jamie Lokier
Mohammed Gamal wrote: Hi Javier, Thanks for the link. However, I'm still concerned with interoperability with other operating systems, including non-Windows ones. I am not sure of how many operating systems actually support 9p, but I'm almost certain that CIFS would be more widely-supported.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-10 Thread Mohammed Gamal
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Jamie Lokier ja...@shareable.org wrote: Mohammed Gamal wrote: Hi Javier, Thanks for the link. However, I'm still concerned with interoperability with other operating systems, including non-Windows ones. I am not sure of how many operating systems actually

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-10 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Mohammed Gamal m.gamal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Jamie Lokier ja...@shareable.org wrote: To throw a spanner in, the most widely supported filesystem across operating systems is probably NFS, version 2 :-) Remember that Windows usage

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-09 Thread Luiz Capitulino
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 18:01:01 +0200 Mohammed Gamal m.gamal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Now that Cam is almost done with his ivshmem patches, I was thinking of another idea for GSoC which is improving the pass-though filesystems. I've got some questions on that: 1- What does the community prefer

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-09 Thread jvrao
Luiz Capitulino wrote: On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 18:01:01 +0200 Mohammed Gamal m.gamal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Now that Cam is almost done with his ivshmem patches, I was thinking of another idea for GSoC which is improving the pass-though filesystems. I've got some questions on that: 1- What

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-09 Thread Mohammed Gamal
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:11 PM, jvrao jv...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: Luiz Capitulino wrote: On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 18:01:01 +0200 Mohammed Gamal m.gamal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Now that Cam is almost done with his ivshmem patches, I was thinking of another idea for GSoC which is improving the

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-09 Thread Jamie Lokier
Mohammed Gamal wrote: 2- With respect to CIFS. I wonder how the shares are supposed to be exposed to the guest. Should the Samba server be modified to be able to use unix domain sockets instead of TCP ports and then QEMU communicating on these sockets. With that approach, how should the guest

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-09 Thread Mohammed Gamal
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Jamie Lokier ja...@shareable.org wrote: Mohammed Gamal wrote: 2- With respect to CIFS. I wonder how the shares are supposed to be exposed to the guest. Should the Samba server be modified to be able to use unix domain sockets instead of TCP ports and then QEMU

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-09 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Mohammed Gamal m.gamal...@gmail.com wrote: That's all good and well. The question now is which direction would the community prefer to go. Would everyone be just happy with virtio-9p passthrough? Would it support multiple OSs (Windows comes to mind here)? Or

Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-09 Thread Mohammed Gamal
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Javier Guerra Giraldez jav...@guerrag.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Mohammed Gamal m.gamal...@gmail.com wrote: That's all good and well. The question now is which direction would the community prefer to go. Would everyone be just happy with

[GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-08 Thread Mohammed Gamal
Hi, Now that Cam is almost done with his ivshmem patches, I was thinking of another idea for GSoC which is improving the pass-though filesystems. I've got some questions on that: 1- What does the community prefer to use and improve? CIFS, 9p, or both? And which is better taken up for GSoC. 2-

Re: [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-08 Thread Mohammed Gamal
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Mohammed Gamal m.gamal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Now that Cam is almost done with his ivshmem patches, I was thinking of another idea for GSoC which is improving the pass-though filesystems. I've got some questions on that: 1- What does the community prefer to

Re: [GSoC 2010] Pass-through filesystem support.

2010-04-08 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Mohammed Gamal m.gamal...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Mohammed Gamal m.gamal...@gmail.com wrote: 1- What does the community prefer to use and improve? CIFS, 9p, or both? And which is better taken up for GSoC. There have been recent patches