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
> 



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