Enable virtfs in Natty ??

[Tim Gardner]

On 12/06/2010 11:04 AM, Venkateswararao Jujjuri (JV) wrote:
> On 12/6/2010 8:43 AM, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> Looks to me like the only config options that aren't already enabled in Natty
>> are CONFIG_9P_FSCACHE and CONFIG_9P_FS_POSIX_ACL. Do they need to be enabled?
>
> Thanks a lot for looking into our request.
>
> The CONFIG_9P_FS_POSIX_ACL is needed for our newly added
> ACL support, and FSCACHE can be delayed as it is optional to enable caching for now.
> Once we add mmap support then we need that config option also for the mmap
> functionality.
> For now no need to enable CONFIG_9P_FSCACHE by default.
>
>   CONFIG_NET_9P=y
>   CONFIG_NET_9P_VIRTIO=m
>   CONFIG_NET_9P_DEBUG=y
>   CONFIG_9P_FS=y
>   CONFIG_9P_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
>

Will you have mmap support for 2.6.38? If so, we might as well turn on 
CONFIG_9P_FSCACHE now so it doesn't get forgotten.

> Also this functionality is linked to taking latest QEMU from mainline. What are
> the plans for
> QEMU? Depending on QEMU version config options we need enable may change too.
>
> Thanks,
> JV
>

This is what rmadison shows for natty:

qemu | 0.13.0+noroms-0ubuntu9

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com