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

[Jamie Lokier]

Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Mohammed Gamal <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Jamie Lokier <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> To throw a spanner in, the most widely supported filesystem across
> >> operating systems is probably NFS, version 2 :-)
> >
> > Remember that Windows usage on a VM is not some rare use case, and
> > it'd be a little bit of a pain from a user's perspective to have to
> > install a third party NFS client for every VM they use. Having
> > something supported on the VM out of the box is a better option IMO.
> 
> i don't think virtio-CIFS has any more support out of the box (on any
> system) than virtio-9P.

It doesn't, but at least network-CIFS tends to work ok and is the
method of choice for Windows VMs - when you can setup Samba on the
host (which as previously noted you cannot always do non-disruptively
with current Sambas).

-- Jamie