Re: [V9fs-developer] Access virtio-9p from userland

[Eric V. H. <er...@gm...>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Enrico Weigelt <we...@me...> wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a way to mount an 9p server behind an virtio
> channel from userland (in my libmixp). How could I do this ?
>

Hi Enrico,
  There's no currently exposed interface to access the 9P channel from
userland in the guest, the kernel client accesses the virtio channel
directly.  One could craft a device driver which provided a srv-like
interface that used the same PCI addressing information as the v9fs
virtio client, but nothing like this currently exists.  Assuming you
are running a Linux in the guest (perhaps a bad assumption), what
advantages would libmixp give you over accessing the link via the v9fs
client?

              -eric