On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 12:00:41PM -0800, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > This patch series implements a new transport for 9pfs, aimed at Xen > > systems. > > > > The transport is based on a traditional Xen frontend and backend drivers > > pair. This patch series implements the frontend, which typically runs in > > a regular unprivileged guest. > > > > I'll follow up with another series that implements the backend in > > userspace in QEMU, which typically runs in Dom0 (but could also run in > > a another guest). > > > > The frontend complies to the Xen transport for 9pfs specification > > version 1, available here: > > > > http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=blob_plain;f=docs/misc/9pfs.markdown;hb=HEAD > > Kind of tangential to this series, but maybe it would make sense to implement > this transport in a fuse based 9pfs driver? I see there are already several > fuse-9pfs implementations around. Something for a GSoC/Outreach project?
Sure. Additionally, with open source frontends and backends already available, it should be easier to code. I am happy to co-mentor the project with you, if you feel like it.
