[kata-dev] Early access virtio-fs for Kata

Stefan Hajnoczi stefanha at redhat.com
Fri Mar 8 14:44:35 UTC 2019


On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 02:22:23PM +0100, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 10:44:56AM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > virtio-fs is approaching a 1.0 release where it will be suitable for
> > wider usage.  Sebastien has also gotten virtio-fs working with
> > Firecracker so that both Kata VMMs can support it.
> > 
> > Is there interest in merging virtio-fs 1.0 Linux and QEMU into Kata's
> > repositories?
> There is a strong interest, yes.
> I am wondering if we should enable virtio-fs first in NEMU (Which we
> support with Kata) to allow for an easy preview of virtio-fs and then
> switch to the latest QEMU once virtio-fs support lands upstream.

Nice, the QEMU commits should merge into NEMU pretty easily.

virtio-fs consists of the vhost-user-fs-pci device in
hw/virtio/vhost-user-fs.c and the file system daemon in
contrib/virtiofsd/.

I will send a follow-up when virtio-fs 1.0 is available.

Thanks,
Stefan
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