On Monday 25 April 2011 1:01:38 am Rob Landley wrote: > So on the host side I'm trying to do this: > > $ qemu -cpu pentium3 -nographic -no-reboot -kernel bzImage \ > -hda hda.sqf -append 'root=/dev/hda rw init=/sbin/init.sh panic=1 \ > PATH=/bin:/sbin console=ttyS0 HOST=i686 ' -net nic,model=e1000 \ > -net user -virtfs > local,path=../root-filesystem-i686,security_model=mapped,mount_tag=root > > And on the guest side I'm trying to do this: > > mount -t 9p -o ro,trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L root /mnt > > And it's saying: > > mount: mounting root on /mnt failed: No such device > > No idea what I'm doing wrong, "no such device" is not an informative > error message. > > There's no obvious way to get the Linux client to tell me what tags > are available. "What can I mount? Do you see anything?" I've > looked under /proc and /sys for "virtio"... It's entirely possible > I'm missing something in my kernel .config but who knows what?
You can get available tags from /sys/devices/virtio-pci/virtio*/mount_tag > > I note that qemu was sitting down and SULKING unless I specified the > security_model (I'm mounting read only, I don't care, but there > doesn't seem to be any way to DO a read-only export). I'm guessing > based on the fact it stopped complaining that it is in fact exporting > something (and thus not upset I gave it a relative path, although giving > it an absolute path made no difference...) > > Any clues? > > Rob ---- M. Mohan Kumar
