* [9fans] v9fs & virtio
@ 2008-06-11 11:46 Venkatesh Srinivas
2008-06-11 13:45 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
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From: Venkatesh Srinivas @ 2008-06-11 11:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Hi,
The v9fs docs mention that it can use virtio as a transport. How does
one get a 9P server running in such a way that it can be connected to
via virtio?
Thanks,
--vs
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* Re: [9fans] v9fs & virtio
2008-06-11 11:46 [9fans] v9fs & virtio Venkatesh Srinivas
@ 2008-06-11 13:45 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
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From: Eric Van Hensbergen @ 2008-06-11 13:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Venkatesh Srinivas <me@acm.jhu.edu> wrote:
>
> The v9fs docs mention that it can use virtio as a transport. How does
> one get a 9P server running in such a way that it can be connected to
> via virtio?
>
Writing the presentation on this for KVM Forum right now.
There are two current variants -- a gateway server which is integrated
into lguest (patches have been posted to the lguest mailing list, but
I can put it someplace else if folks are interested) -- then you
essentially start lguest and feed it an argument specifying where you
server lives (-9p 10.0.0.1:567).
The KVM variant was done by Anthony Ligouri, and it has a server
integrated into qemu. The patched kvm-qemu requires a "-shared
<path>" name to start the server.
In both cases, you just mount -t 9p nodev /mnt -o trans=virtio
Its stable, but preliminary at this point. The main problem being
neither implementation is anywhere near optimal.
Lucho had an older version of a kvm which had an integrated spfs-based
server, but I'm not sure he's ported that forward.
I don't believe there's any support in Plan 9 at the moment for the 9p
virtio channel, but it shouldn't take someone that much to add it.
I'll try putting up something with a bit more more information and the
associated patches on my kernel.org web page.
-eric
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