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

Ernst, Eric eric.ernst at intel.com
Fri Mar 8 14:48:18 UTC 2019


Great! This will have direct impact to folks working to put kata into production. 

Thanks for your efforts here, Stefan et al, and looking forward to enabling as soon as is feasible. 

Eric

> On Mar 8, 2019, at 6:45 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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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