Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen

2016-01-25 Thread Wei Liu
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 10:35:44AM -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On January 23, 2016 9:50:30 AM EST, Wei Liu wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 01:33:40PM +0800, Bob Liu wrote: > >> > >> On 01/22/2016 06:50 PM, Wei Liu wrote: > >> > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 06:45:30PM

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen

2016-01-25 Thread David Vrabel
On 25/01/16 11:29, Wei Liu wrote: > > That goes back to the old topic of how to make VirtIO work on Xen (PV in > particular). It's not easy task by any means. This is a (very) useful thing to solve anyway so why not go down this route? Particularly, since the latest discussion had reached a

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen

2016-01-23 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
On January 23, 2016 9:50:30 AM EST, Wei Liu wrote: >On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 01:33:40PM +0800, Bob Liu wrote: >> >> On 01/22/2016 06:50 PM, Wei Liu wrote: >> > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 06:45:30PM +0800, Bob Liu wrote: >> >> Hi Wei, >> >> >> >> On 01/21/2016 06:59 PM, Wei Liu

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen

2016-01-23 Thread Wei Liu
On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 01:33:40PM +0800, Bob Liu wrote: > > On 01/22/2016 06:50 PM, Wei Liu wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 06:45:30PM +0800, Bob Liu wrote: > >> Hi Wei, > >> > >> On 01/21/2016 06:59 PM, Wei Liu wrote: > >>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:50:08AM +, David Vrabel wrote: >

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen

2016-01-22 Thread Wei Liu
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 06:45:30PM +0800, Bob Liu wrote: > Hi Wei, > > On 01/21/2016 06:59 PM, Wei Liu wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:50:08AM +, David Vrabel wrote: > >> On 21/01/16 10:28, Wei Liu wrote: > >>> [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen > >>> > >>> # Introduction > >>> > >>> QEMU/KVM

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen

2016-01-22 Thread Bob Liu
Hi Wei, On 01/21/2016 06:59 PM, Wei Liu wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:50:08AM +, David Vrabel wrote: >> On 21/01/16 10:28, Wei Liu wrote: >>> [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen >>> >>> # Introduction >>> >>> QEMU/KVM supports file system passthrough via an interface called >>> VirtFS [0].

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen

2016-01-22 Thread Paul Durrant
> -Original Message- > From: xen-devel-boun...@lists.xen.org [mailto:xen-devel- > boun...@lists.xen.org] On Behalf Of Wei Liu > Sent: 22 January 2016 10:51 > To: Bob Liu > Cc: Xen-devel; Wei Liu; David Vrabel > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen >

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen

2016-01-22 Thread Wei Liu
Cc: Xen-devel; Wei Liu; David Vrabel > > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen > > > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 06:45:30PM +0800, Bob Liu wrote: > > > Hi Wei, > > > > > > On 01/21/2016 06:59 PM, Wei Liu wrote: > > > > On Thu, Ja

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen

2016-01-22 Thread Bob Liu
On 01/22/2016 06:50 PM, Wei Liu wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 06:45:30PM +0800, Bob Liu wrote: >> Hi Wei, >> >> On 01/21/2016 06:59 PM, Wei Liu wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:50:08AM +, David Vrabel wrote: On 21/01/16 10:28, Wei Liu wrote: > [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen

2016-01-21 Thread Wei Liu
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:50:08AM +, David Vrabel wrote: > On 21/01/16 10:28, Wei Liu wrote: > > [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen > > > > # Introduction > > > > QEMU/KVM supports file system passthrough via an interface called > > VirtFS [0]. VirtFS is in turn implemented with 9pfs protocol [1]

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen

2016-01-21 Thread David Vrabel
On 21/01/16 10:28, Wei Liu wrote: > [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen > > # Introduction > > QEMU/KVM supports file system passthrough via an interface called > VirtFS [0]. VirtFS is in turn implemented with 9pfs protocol [1] and > VirtIO transport. > > Xen used to have its own implementation of file

[Xen-devel] [RFC] VirtFS support on Xen

2016-01-21 Thread Wei Liu
[RFC] VirtFS support on Xen # Introduction QEMU/KVM supports file system passthrough via an interface called VirtFS [0]. VirtFS is in turn implemented with 9pfs protocol [1] and VirtIO transport. Xen used to have its own implementation of file system passthrough called XenFS, but that has been