Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Mohammed Gamal <m.gamal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Jamie Lokier <ja...@shareable.org> wrote: > >> To throw a spanner in, the most widely supported filesystem across > >> operating systems is probably NFS, version 2 :-) > > > > 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. > > i don't think virtio-CIFS has any more support out of the box (on any > system) than virtio-9P.
It doesn't, but at least network-CIFS tends to work ok and is the method of choice for Windows VMs - when you can setup Samba on the host (which as previously noted you cannot always do non-disruptively with current Sambas). -- Jamie
