Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] tools: add option to explicitly enable VirtFS in QEMU build

2018-09-11 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 11.09.18 at 16:06, wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Paul Durrant >> Sent: 11 September 2018 15:04 >> To: 'Jan Beulich' >> Cc: Julien Grall ; Andrew Cooper >> ; Wei Liu ; George >> Dunlap ; Ian Jackson ; >> Stefano Stabellini ; xen-devel > de...@lists.xenproject.org>; Konrad R

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] tools: add option to explicitly enable VirtFS in QEMU build

2018-09-11 Thread Paul Durrant
> -Original Message- > From: Paul Durrant > Sent: 11 September 2018 15:04 > To: 'Jan Beulich' > Cc: Julien Grall ; Andrew Cooper > ; Wei Liu ; George > Dunlap ; Ian Jackson ; > Stefano Stabellini ; xen-devel de...@lists.xenproject.org>; Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > ; Tim (Xen.org) > Subject:

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] tools: add option to explicitly enable VirtFS in QEMU build

2018-09-11 Thread Paul Durrant
> -Original Message- > From: Jan Beulich [mailto:jbeul...@suse.com] > Sent: 11 September 2018 14:45 > To: Paul Durrant > Cc: Julien Grall ; Andrew Cooper > ; Wei Liu ; George > Dunlap ; Ian Jackson ; > Stefano Stabellini ; xen-devel de...@lists.xenproject.org>; Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk > ; T

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] tools: add option to explicitly enable VirtFS in QEMU build

2018-09-11 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 11.09.18 at 15:37, wrote: > 9pfs support has been a documented feature since Xen 4.9, but QEMU will > not be built with backend support unless VirtFS is enabled, which is > predicated on the libcap and libattr dev packages being installed. This is > not obvious to anyone intending to use 9p

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] tools: add option to explicitly enable VirtFS in QEMU build

2018-09-11 Thread Paul Durrant
9pfs support has been a documented feature since Xen 4.9, but QEMU will not be built with backend support unless VirtFS is enabled, which is predicated on the libcap and libattr dev packages being installed. This is not obvious to anyone intending to use 9pfs. This patch adds an 'enable-9pfs' opti