I've updated the Gentoo docs for the flag to read: Enable VirtFS via fsdev (host) and virtio-9p-pci (guest). See http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup
Hopefully that's a bit more clear that you need to enable that for this support. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1130769 Title: [RESOLVED] VirtFS (virtio-9p-pci) error: Parameter 'driver' expects device type Status in QEMU: Invalid Bug description: Getting error "Parameter 'driver' expects device type" when trying to share a file system with a guest. Command line: qemu-kvm -m 4096 -cpu host -smp 4,sockets=1 -net nic,model=virtio,macaddr=00:00:00:00:00:00 -net tap,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no -rtc base=localtime -drive file=/vm/VM.img,cache=none,if=virtio -curses -boot menu=off -fsdev fsdriver,id=fsdev-fs0,path=/srv/files,security_model=passthrough,writeout=writeout -device virtio-9p-pci,fsdev=fsdev-fs0,mount_tag=files OS (host/guest): Gentoo Kernel (host/guest): 3.7.5-hardened CPU: AMD Opteron(TM) Processor 6272 (host: 16 cores, guest: 4) Arch (host/guest): x86_64 Version: QEMU emulator version 1.2.2 (qemu-kvm-1.2.0), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard Package: app-emulation/qemu-1.2.2-r3 -no-kvm-irqchip did not have effect -no-kvm-pit did not have effect other than "Warning: KVM PIT can no longer be disabled separately." -no-kvm did not work with "Could not allocate dynamic translator buffer" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1130769/+subscriptions
