As I was still reading claims on the net that 9p was not usable for more complex use cases, I decided to write a complete HOWTO for installing and configuring an entire guest OS (with Debian 11 "Bullseye" as example) on top of 9p being guest's root fs:
https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9p_root_fs With this being setup this way, I am not encountering any issues no matter which software I am additionally installing and running. Best regards, Christian Schoenebeck
