Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvm tools: Add virtio-9p

2011-05-17 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 22:08 +0300, Sasha Levin wrote: >> 'kvm_9p' isn't created as a device under /dev, it's just a name used >> internally by 9pnet_virtio (and located under sysfs). >> >> I couldn't figure out which params the kernel would exp

Re: KVM and Kernel Development

2008-07-01 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Slohm Gadaburi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Soren, > >> I've done this loads of times with great success. What happens when you >> try? > > It hangs with: > > * Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local) [OK] > Sounds like you don't have getty running on ttyS0.

Re: Sharing variables/memory between host and guest ?

2008-07-12 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Arn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> A paravirtualized driver can take care of that with driver in the guest and >> device side in qemu/host kernel. >> You can use 9p virtio solution in Linux that implements a shared file >> system. > > I had a look at the 9p relate

Re: Sharing variables/memory between host and guest ?

2008-07-12 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Arn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric, thanks for the prompt response, a few more questions: > >> The virtio portions of the kernel were just added in 2.6.24, the >> server portion has not yet been integrated into the kvm-qemu mainline, >> but is fairly trivial to m

Re: Virtio File System.

2008-08-27 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 5:59 AM, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I was wondering if anyone had thought about creating a virtio file system, > > There was some work using the plan 9 filesystem protocol over virtio. Not > sure where that stands. You could base your work off that. > Ther