On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 09:41:58AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 08:36:37PM -0400, Anthony J Rabbito wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm having some trouble getting virt9p built with Qemu on Darwin. Given > > that virtio-fs is progressing nicely i'm wondering if anyone has had any > > success building for Darwin? > > Looking to build a podman machine with shared directories. > > Thanks, > > Hi Anthony, > > I have never tried building qemu/virtiofsd for Darwin. > > My understanding is that virtiofsd is supposed to be running on Linux. > It has code which makes assumption about linux specific behavior. So > I doubt it will work correctly on Darwin even if you managed to > compile it.
Yes, this is the case. For the macOS port of libkrun, which integrates a virtio-fs server, I had to rewrite a significant part of the passthrough implementation [1]. And even with all the workarounds there, the semantics aren't 100% compatible, just good enough for the common use cases. Sergio. [1] https://github.com/containers/libkrun/blob/main/src/devices/src/virtio/fs/macos/passthrough.rs
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