Re: [libvirt] NFS over AF_VSOCK in <filesystem>

On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 04:57:17PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > virtio-vsock support has been added to the nfs-ganesha NFS server. I'm > currently working on upstreaming virtio-vsock into Linux and QEMU. I > also have patches for the Linux NFS client and server. > > Users wishing to share a file system with the guest will need to > configure the NFS server. Perhaps libvirt could handle that given that > it already has <filesystem> syntax. > > The basic task is setting up either the kernel nfsd or nfs-ganesha for > the VM to access the NFS export(s). When the VM is destroy the NFS > server can be shut down. Can you elaborate on the interaction between QEMU and the NFS server on the host ? What actually needed changing in nfs-ganesha to support virtio-vsock ? I thought that on the host side we wouldn't need any changes, because QEMU would just talk to a regular NFS server over TCP, and the only virtio-vsock changes would be in QEMU and the guest kernel.