Re: [libvirt PATCHv2 10/10] docs: add virtiofs kbase

On 1/23/20 11:46 AM, Ján Tomko wrote: >Add a document describing the usage of virtiofs. >--- > docs/kbase.html.in | 3 + > docs/kbase/virtiofs.rst | 153 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 156 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 docs/kbase/virtiofs.rst > >+=== 8< delete before merging 8< === >+NOTE: if you're looking at this note, this is just a proposal. >+See the up-to-date version on: https://libvirt.org/kbase/virtiofs.html >+=== 8< --------------------- 8< === I'm assuming this will be updated ;) >+ >+.. contents:: >+ >+========= >+Virtio-FS >+========= >+ >+Virtio-FS is a delicious delicacy aiming to provide an easy-to-configure Fun language, but diverges from the official description... >+way of sharing filesystems between the host and the virtual machine. >+ >+See https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/ ...that you find here: "Virtio-fs is a shared file system that lets virtual machines access a directory tree on the host. Unlike existing approaches, it is designed to offer local file system semantics and performance." I'm not opposed to a fun turn of a phrase in what is otherwise dry technical documentation, but wonder if it helps our case here.

>+ >+2. Use hugepage-backed memory >+ >+Make sure there are enough huge pages allocated for the requested guest memory. >+For exmaple, for one guest with 2 GiB of RAM backed by 2 MiB hugepages: example -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org