[pve-devel] [PATCH cluster/guest-common/docs/qemu-server/manager v15 0/12] virtiofs

[Lukas Wagner]

On  2025-04-03 12:34, Markus Frank wrote:
> Virtio-fs is a shared file system that enables sharing a directory
> between host and guest VMs. It takes advantage of the locality of
> virtual machines and the hypervisor to get a higher throughput than
> the 9p remote file system protocol.
> 
> build-order:
> 1. cluster
> 2. guest-common
> 3. docs
> 4. qemu-server
> 5. manager
> 
> I did not get virtiofsd to run with run_command without creating
> zombie processes after stutdown. So I replaced run_command with exec
> for now. Maybe someone can find out why this happens.
> 
> changes in v15:
> * removed announce-submounts option altogether and always set it for
>  virtiofsd.
> * added die if both memory hotplug and virtiofs are enabled
> * added fstab entry example in the docs
> * assert_valid_map_list: only run assert_valid for the mappings on the
>  current node
> * see individual patches
> 

Cool stuff! Tried it out, seems to work as promised (only tested a Linux guest though)

Tested-by: Lukas Wagner <l.wagner at proxmox.com>

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- Lukas