Good day,I'm using qemu on a Windows host. One thing I stumbled over was missing 9p support. I thought it was because of missing (x)attr, but Stefan Weil told me that 9p is supported only under Linux hosts.
I searched a bit and got following questions:* are my following results right: The data structure for 9p is 9FSState, which has the element FileOperations ops. This is defined in fsdev\file-op-9p.h, whis is implemented in 4 ways from hw\p9fs\p9-*.c. These are registered by fsdev\qemu-fsdev.c. * is the file hw\p9fs\p9-local.c the only cause 9p is working only under Linux? * 9p-synth makes only a virtual file system without any references to a real directory tree - so this should already work under Windows? If not: Why not? * How to implement the Windows support? I don't want to clutter the 9p-local.c with #ifdefs all over the place, so my idea is to rename it to 9p-local-posix.c, create a new 9p-local-windows.c and let the build system include the right one? * My first approach will be to skip all of the "fancy" things like permissions (using faked ones), symlinks, special files and so on. Is this ok?
* Is already somebody else working on it or should I yust jump in?* Is there any documentation I should read regarding 9p aside the code itself, the user documentation and http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/GettingStartedDevelopers ? * Is there a person which could mentor me a bit (as I'm completely new to qemu source or should I just write to this mailing list or in irc's #qemu channel (I'm both in freenode and oftc)? * Do I need care of any license agreement stuff? If I'm right all files which I need to work with are GPL2, which is fine for me.
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