On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Jamie Lokier <ja...@shareable.org> wrote: > Mohammed Gamal wrote: >> Hi Javier, >> Thanks for the link. However, I'm still concerned with >> interoperability with other operating systems, including non-Windows >> ones. I am not sure of how many operating systems actually support 9p, >> but I'm almost certain that CIFS would be more widely-supported. >> I am still a newbie as far as all this is concerned, so if anyone has >> any arguments as to whether which approach should be taken, I'd be >> enlightened to hear them. > > To throw a spanner in, the most widely supported filesystem across > operating systems is probably NFS, version 2 :-) > > -- Jamie >
Remember that Windows usage on a VM is not some rare use case, and it'd be a little bit of a pain from a user's perspective to have to install a third party NFS client for every VM they use. Having something supported on the VM out of the box is a better option IMO. Regards, Mohammed
