Re: [Qemu-devel] Connecting virtio-9p-pci to a remote 9p server

2012-10-30 Thread Chris Webb
Eric Van Hensbergen writes: > A passthrough makes perfect sense, a couple summers ago we had an > Extreme Blue team working on using 9p for a cloud hosting environment > -- while they were primarily working on gatewaying through a host > operating system we also discussed doing 9p passthrough (pr

Re: [Qemu-devel] Connecting virtio-9p-pci to a remote 9p server

2012-10-16 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Chris Webb wrote: > > Whilst we can mount the shares on each host and then use qemu's 9p > passthrough/proxy support to access the mountpoint, going via the host > kernel and vfs like this feels quite inefficient. We would be converting > back and forth between vfs

Re: [Qemu-devel] Connecting virtio-9p-pci to a remote 9p server

2012-10-15 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:36:08PM +0100, Chris Webb wrote: > We're planning to implement shared filesystems for guests on our virtualized > hosting platform, stored on a central fileserver separate from the hosts. > > Whilst we can mount the shares on each host and then use qemu's 9p > passthroug

[Qemu-devel] Connecting virtio-9p-pci to a remote 9p server

2012-10-15 Thread Chris Webb
We're planning to implement shared filesystems for guests on our virtualized hosting platform, stored on a central fileserver separate from the hosts. Whilst we can mount the shares on each host and then use qemu's 9p passthrough/proxy support to access the mountpoint, going via the host kernel an