Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] vbox: Support shared folders

Shared folders are handled as filesystems and can also be hotplugged. --- Currently this just maps shared folder to a filesystem element with type mount. The filesystem element has an accessmode attribute that is not useful for VirtualBox. Als the target element only has a dir attribute, but VirtualBox shares doen't support that, you can only give them a name. <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'> <source dir='/tmp'/> <target dir='foobar'/> <readonly/> </filesystem> I wonder if we should add a shared folder type like this: <filesystem type='sharedfolder'> <source dir='/tmp'/> <target name='foobar'/> <readonly/> </filesystem> Or is this to specific to VirtualBox?

VirtualBox 4.0 added the automount option that automatically mounts a shared folder in the guest. On Windows it is mounted to a free drive letter on Linux it's mounted to /media/<prefix>_<shared-folder-name>. The <prefix> is a global configuration option in VirtualBox. I wonder if and how to expose that in libvirt.