Re: [Xen-devel] Virtual File System in XEN

[Nupur Ghatnekar <nupurghatnekar@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

(please try not to top post)

On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 03:57 +0100, Nupur Ghatnekar wrote:
> We are planning to port the VirtFS implemented in the KVM land
> ( http://www.sciweavers.org/publications/virtfs-virtualization-aware-file-system-pass-through) to XEN land.
>
> The advantages are
> 1) sharing
> 2) security
> 3)reduced translations

Is this the same "virtfs" as is documented here
http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup ? It certainly appears to be
the same thing (the authors of the paper include a qemu maintainer).

Ian.

Yes, it is the same thing.
Implemented in KVM. We are trying to do so in XEN.

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Nupur Ghatnekar
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