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

[Raphael Bauduin]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Tony Su <address@hidden> wrote:

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

I'm afraid not, as I have it set up, but it is unstable.
I also need to have the user ids kept for file owners, and it seems this is not possible to set up with the GUI.

Raph
 

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

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