On Donnerstag, 14. Oktober 2021 15:23:25 CEST Will Cohen wrote: > Correct, sorry for the imprecise language. The use case being contemplated > is limited to Linux as the guest side, specifically for cross-platform > tools where the macOS implementation consists of integrating a Linux VM via > QEMU. > > NixOS (updater of the original patch, > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/122420) would be able to use this to > provide macOS support via a VM. > > Lima and Podman as containerization alternatives to Docker would like to > performantly mount volumes between macOS users and their respective VMs. > Lima currently accomplishes this via sshfs, but would like to move to 9p > for stability/performance reasons > (https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/issues/20). Podman has yet to fully settle > on an implementation at all due to similar outstanding concerns, but the > furthest along proposed implementation choice has been 9pfs as well > (https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/11454), pending adoption of such > functionality in QEMU upstream.
I only had a glimpse on the patches so far. From what I've seen, I don't expect much of a problem to bring this series through. I will have a closer look on v2 though. I also have to read the old discussions where I was not involved yet. Soft freeze for QEMU 6.2 is close BTW (November 2nd): https://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/6.2 Best regards, Christian Schoenebeck
