That's great news :)

Sebastien

On Mon, 2019-08-19 at 17:04 +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> I am delighted to announce the release of virtio-fs v0.3, a shared
> file
> system that lets virtual machines access a directory tree on the
> host.
> This release is based on QEMU 4.1.0 and Linux 5.3-rc3.
> 
> For more information about virtio-fs: https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/
> 
> This is a development release aimed at early adopters of virtio-
> fs.  Work is
> being done to upstream the code into Linux and QEMU.  We expect to
> stop
> publishing virtio-fs releases once the code has been merged by these
> upstream
> projects.
> 
> Where to get it:
> 
>   https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/linux/-/tags/virtio-fs-v0.3
>   https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/qemu/-/tags/virtio-fs-v0.3
> 
> Changes:
> 
>  * Please note that the mount syntax has changed to:
> 
>      # mount -t virtio_fs myfs /mnt -o ...
> 
>    The old syntax was "mount -t virtio_fs none /mnt -o tag=myfs,...".
> 
>  * virtiofsd --fd=FDNUM takes a listen socket file descriptor
> number.  File
>    descriptor passing is an alternative way to manage the vhost-user
> UNIX
>    domain socket.  The parent process no longer needs to wait for
> virtiofsd to
>    create the listen socket before spawning the VM.
> 
>  * virtiofsd --syslog logs to syslog(2) instead of stderr.  Useful
> for unifying
>    logging and when the virtiofsd process is not being supervised.
> 
>  * virtiofsd --thread-pool-size=NUM sets the maximum number of worker
> threads
>    for FUSE request processing.  This can be used to control the host
> queue
>    depth.  The default is 64.
> 
>  * Performance improvements and bug fixes.
> 
> Note for Kata Containers: the new kernel is not compatible with
> existing
> Kata Containers releases due to the mount syntax change.  To try it
> out,
> please apply the following kata-runtime patch:
> 
>   
> https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/runtime/commit/a2e44de817e438c02a495cf258039774527e3178
> 
> Kata Containers patches for virtio-fs v0.3 are under development and
> will be
> submitted to Kata soon.
> 
> Thanks to the following people for contributing code and to many more
> for helping the virtio-fs effort:
> 
> Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilb...@redhat.com>
> Eric Ren <renz...@linux.alibaba.com>
> Eryu Guan <eg...@linux.alibaba.com>
> Ganesh Maharaj Mahalingam <ganesh.mahalin...@intel.com>
> Jiufei Xue <jiufei....@linux.alibaba.com>
> Liu Bo <bo....@linux.alibaba.com>
> Masayoshi Mizuma <m.miz...@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Miklos Szeredi <mszer...@redhat.com>
> Peng Tao <tao.p...@linux.alibaba.com>
> piaojun <piao...@huawei.com>
> Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.bo...@intel.com>
> Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com>
> Vivek Goyal <vgo...@redhat.com>
> Xiaoguang Wang <xiaoguang.w...@linux.alibaba.com>
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