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Re: [Qemu-devel] [kata-dev] [ANNOUNCE] virtio-fs v0.3 release
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [kata-dev] [ANNOUNCE] virtio-fs v0.3 release |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Aug 2019 09:09:52 +0100 |
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* Peng Tao (address@hidden) wrote:
>
>
> On 2019/8/20 00:04, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > I am delighted to announce the release of virtio-fs v0.3, a shared file
> > system that lets virtual machines access a directory tree on the host.
> > This release is based on QEMU 4.1.0 and Linux 5.3-rc3.
> >
> Good news! As virtio-fs is maturing and stabilizing, what's the plan for
> upstreaming both qemu and kernel part of it?
We're working on that.
A few days ago I sent the core qemu code to qemu-devel marked as
experiemental; Vivek is planning on sending another kernel version out.
Dave
> Cheers,
> Tao
>
> > For more information about virtio-fs: https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/
> >
> > This is a development release aimed at early adopters of virtio-fs. Work is
> > being done to upstream the code into Linux and QEMU. We expect to stop
> > publishing virtio-fs releases once the code has been merged by these
> > upstream
> > projects.
> >
> > Where to get it:
> >
> > https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/linux/-/tags/virtio-fs-v0.3
> > https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/qemu/-/tags/virtio-fs-v0.3
> >
> > Changes:
> >
> > * Please note that the mount syntax has changed to:
> >
> > # mount -t virtio_fs myfs /mnt -o ...
> >
> > The old syntax was "mount -t virtio_fs none /mnt -o tag=myfs,...".
> >
> > * virtiofsd --fd=FDNUM takes a listen socket file descriptor number. File
> > descriptor passing is an alternative way to manage the vhost-user UNIX
> > domain socket. The parent process no longer needs to wait for
> > virtiofsd to
> > create the listen socket before spawning the VM.
> >
> > * virtiofsd --syslog logs to syslog(2) instead of stderr. Useful for
> > unifying
> > logging and when the virtiofsd process is not being supervised.
> >
> > * virtiofsd --thread-pool-size=NUM sets the maximum number of worker
> > threads
> > for FUSE request processing. This can be used to control the host queue
> > depth. The default is 64.
> >
> > * Performance improvements and bug fixes.
> >
> > Note for Kata Containers: the new kernel is not compatible with existing
> > Kata Containers releases due to the mount syntax change. To try it out,
> > please apply the following kata-runtime patch:
> >
> >
> > https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/runtime/commit/a2e44de817e438c02a495cf258039774527e3178
> >
> > Kata Containers patches for virtio-fs v0.3 are under development and will be
> > submitted to Kata soon.
> >
> > Thanks to the following people for contributing code and to many more
> > for helping the virtio-fs effort:
> >
> > Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>
> > Eric Ren <address@hidden>
> > Eryu Guan <address@hidden>
> > Ganesh Maharaj Mahalingam <address@hidden>
> > Jiufei Xue <address@hidden>
> > Liu Bo <address@hidden>
> > Masayoshi Mizuma <address@hidden>
> > Miklos Szeredi <address@hidden>
> > Peng Tao <address@hidden>
> > piaojun <address@hidden>
> > Sebastien Boeuf <address@hidden>
> > Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> > Vivek Goyal <address@hidden>
> > Xiaoguang Wang <address@hidden>
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > kata-dev mailing list
> > address@hidden
> > http://lists.katacontainers.io/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kata-dev
> >
>
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- [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] virtio-fs v0.3 release, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2019/08/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [kata-dev] [ANNOUNCE] virtio-fs v0.3 release, Boeuf, Sebastien, 2019/08/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Virtio-fs] [ANNOUNCE] virtio-fs v0.3 release, piaojun, 2019/08/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [kata-dev] [ANNOUNCE] virtio-fs v0.3 release, Peng Tao, 2019/08/19
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [kata-dev] [ANNOUNCE] virtio-fs v0.3 release,
Dr. David Alan Gilbert <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [kata-dev] [ANNOUNCE] virtio-fs v0.3 release, Xu Wang, 2019/08/19