Re: [Inotify-tools] Using INotify with virtual machines

[Mattijs J. <m.j...@op...>]

On Wednesday 23 Feb 2011 19:15:35 nick harezga wrote:
> I am currently attempting to get inotify working with files that are shared
> between virtual machines and a host computer. The files are being shared
> through the ivshmem feature of QEMU, and appear on the host computer under
> /dev/shm. When doing operations on the file from the host, inotify
> recognizes everything correctly. However, when reading or writing to the
> file from the virtual machine, through a UIO device, inotify doesn't detect
> the modifications. Is there anything special that needs to be done to get
> this to work, or does inotify not support virtual machines? Both the host
> and virtual machine are running Ubuntu 10.10 if that makes a difference.

It doesn't work with nfs mounted files so maybe that is the same for your uio 
device.

Kind regards,

Mattijs