On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 11:22:34AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > [A shared filesystem sounds like what you want, but given that qemu > only has 9pfs and the KVM team have deemed that this is unsupportable, > read on ...]
Just to follow up on this point. There is a bug about this (RHBZ#816603) although I suspect that you won't be able to read the important (private) comments there. In summary the reasons we disable this are: - There's no driver support (except in recent Linux). This means that, for example, Windows guests would not be able to see the shared filesystem, nor even older RHEL. - The 9p code upstream is large, unfamiliar, and appears to be a dead end upstream. This makes it a security and maintenance headache. What interesting for me is that filesystem passthrough is usually considered a desktop feature. It's something that VirtualBox - for example - does well, but not something we've considered useful for servers. However you are using it for a server. Rich -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org _______________________________________________ virt mailing list virt@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
