Enable virtfs in Natty ??

[Manoj Iyer]

Team,

Please see below details for virtfs, What are your thoughts on
enabling virtfs in our Natty kernel ?

Cheers
manjo

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Venkateswararao Jujjuri (JV) <jvrao at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: Hello
To: Manoj Iyer <manoj.iyer at canonical.com>


On 11/30/2010 12:43 PM, Manoj Iyer wrote:
> JV,
>
> Yes I do recall having that conversation. Can you pls refresh my
> memory, did you say that you were working this upstream? what is the
> current state of VirtFS ?

Manoj, Thanks for your quick response.

VirtFS is a 9P based passthrough filesystem for virtualized guests.
Yes we are working out of upstream and most of our work is on the mainline
kernel and QEMU.

Here is the setup guide: http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup

I am working out with distros like Fedora and Ubuntu to increase
the reach of this technology by including in distros.

Development is still going but the upstream code has enough functionality to do
basic filesystem functions.

I am not sure if Ubuntu follows Fedora model (taking latest and greatest stable
upstream)
or RHEL model. If former I think it should be relatively easy for you
to include.

If you want to learn more, I will be happy to setup a call and talk to you

More info on VirtFS:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1355632/jujjuri.pdf

http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010/ocw//system/presentations/597/original/VirtFS_LPC_2010_Final.pdf

Thanks,
JV

>
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Venkateswararao Jujjuri (JV)
> <jvrao at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Hi Manoj, This is JV and I met you at Plumbers along with Darren Heart.
>> If you recall we discussed about including VirtFS into  next Ubuntu.
>> If I am getting to right manoj, can you please respond to this email?
>>
>> I would like to talk you more.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> JV
>>
>>
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--manjo