Re: [Qemu-devel] Connecting virtio-9p-pci to a remote 9p server

2012-10-30 Thread Chris Webb
Eric Van Hensbergen eri...@gmail.com writes: A passthrough makes perfect sense, a couple summers ago we had an Extreme Blue team working on using 9p for a cloud hosting environment -- while they were primarily working on gatewaying through a host operating system we also discussed doing 9p

Re: [Qemu-devel] Connecting virtio-9p-pci to a remote 9p server

2012-10-16 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Chris Webb ch...@arachsys.com wrote: Whilst we can mount the shares on each host and then use qemu's 9p passthrough/proxy support to access the mountpoint, going via the host kernel and vfs like this feels quite inefficient. We would be converting back and

[Qemu-devel] Connecting virtio-9p-pci to a remote 9p server

2012-10-15 Thread Chris Webb
We're planning to implement shared filesystems for guests on our virtualized hosting platform, stored on a central fileserver separate from the hosts. Whilst we can mount the shares on each host and then use qemu's 9p passthrough/proxy support to access the mountpoint, going via the host kernel

Re: [Qemu-devel] Connecting virtio-9p-pci to a remote 9p server

2012-10-15 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:36:08PM +0100, Chris Webb wrote: We're planning to implement shared filesystems for guests on our virtualized hosting platform, stored on a central fileserver separate from the hosts. Whilst we can mount the shares on each host and then use qemu's 9p