Re: [libvirt] XML support for arbitrary command line arguments

Hi Eric, thanks for an early response. I came across an interesting feature provided by VirtualBox and which is supported by QEMU as well (with 9p server in place) of sharing a folder on host with the guest. As the shared folder is on same physical machine, one need not necessarily use nfs/cifs to access the underlying storage and should be allowed to use more efficient means to access the same. As QEMU provides support for accessing such shared directory with the help of 9p server, and therefore need to be passed additional commandline argument while starting, I wanted to test it using XML and libvirt. Later, came the idea to my mind why not the VM management softwares (necessarily) have an option asking the user if he/she wants to share a folder on host with guest, and let it create an XML accordingly which will be passed to hypervisors and let the hypervisors decide how to do it efficiently. I had discussed this with Matthias Bolte on #virt and he seems convinced to the idea as well. So, if the idea looks good to everyone, we can have something like: <shareddir fstype=local path='/folder/to/share' mount_tag='unique_tag' security_model='as_applicable'> where fstype = local filesystem path = path to export/share mount_tag = unique id which is visible in guest to mount this share security_model = passthrough/mapped/none regards, Harsh On 09/13/2010 11:47 PM, Eric Blake wrote: