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

[Enrico W. <we...@me...>]

* Eric Van Hensbergen <er...@gm...> schrieb:

Hi,

>   There's no currently exposed interface to access the 9P channel 
> from userland in the guest, the kernel client accesses the virtio 
> channel directly. 

What about the host side ?

It would be interesting to attach some userland fileserver to 
provide some virtual device (eg. let the disk drive of the screen
be a userland process).

> 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?

v9fs mounts it directly into the virtual filesystem - this might be 
not wanted. Imagine we have some VM owned by some user foo who likes
to directly access the VM from the host (eg. memory dump, etc).


cu
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