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.
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docs/kbase.html.in | 3 +
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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
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