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Commit 1c7850f9 authored by Sasha Levin's avatar Sasha Levin Committed by Will Deacon
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kvm tools: Add virtio-9p



Overview:
9p allows for simple RPC based resource sharing over
different transports (in our case, virtio).

This is the implementation of (most of) the original
9p2000 protocol, without the .u or the .l extensions.

How to use:
1. Make sure kernel is compiled with:
    CONFIG_NET_9P=y
    CONFIG_NET_9P_VIRTIO=y
    CONFIG_NET_9P_DEBUG=y (At least until code is stable)
    CONFIG_9P_FS=y

2. Start KVM with '--virtio-9p <dirname>'. What happens now is that
a virtio transport with the name 'kvm_9p' is created. The server side
of the transport maps dirname to the root of the file system.

3. Within the guest, mount the fs:
mount -t 9p -otrans=virtio kvm_9p <local_dir> -oversion=9p2000
This will mount the 9p server to local_dir.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
parent 2b9fb0db
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