Re: [Qemu-discuss] virtio 9p unusable in my setup

[Tony Su]

 Maybe this might be helpful?
http://en.opensuse.org/User:Tsu2/virtfs#Overview

The description setting up 9p should be common to all platforms.
Libvirt's vm-manager will look slightly different in different
distros, but you should be able to figure out those minor details.

Tony

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Raphael Bauduin <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using libvirt 1.2.1, qemu 1.7.0, the host is running the debian kernel
> 2.6.32-bpo.5-vserver-amd64.
>
> I share a directory from the host in passthrough mode, which results in
> these arguments passed to qemu:
>
> -fsdev
> local,security_model=passthrough,id=fsdev-fs0,path=/mnt/ManArea/test_shared/kvmItTools/var/www
> -device
> virtio-9p-pci,id=fs0,fsdev=fsdev-fs0,mount_tag=shared,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6
>
> Accessing the shared directory from the guest is not working fine. Sometimes
> even mounting doesn't work and gives
>
> mount: shared: can't read superblock
>
> When it mounts, running an rsync hangs after a couple of files.
>
> Anyone having suggestions on how to solve this?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Raph