While that would be an interesting feature, as far as I know it has not been done on any hypervisor platform.
Virtualbox has something similar but they use a fake network and put the shared folders as pretend cifs shares that are then mounted in the VM. On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 4:56 AM, Nick Zivkovic <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi list, > > So I have a KVM VM that is running Windows Server 2012. The VM must > run some VPN software, which is very restrictive. It turns out that if > would be useful to share files between this VM and other zones > (including global). However NFS cannot be used due to the VPN. > > Is the following feasible: > > Make a plain ZFS dataset. Make a virtual device that looks like normal > storage drive to windows, but that has a special driver that > translates windows FS calls to Unix FS calls. This way instead of > exposing a block interface, we expose a filesystem interface that can > be used by other VMs on the system while the VPN software is active. > > It seems theoretically possible, I'm just not familiar with KVM > internals and would appreciate some pointers on which parts of the > code to look at to make this kind of setup work. > > Thanks, > -Nick > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
