[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#805624: Bug#805624: libvirt-bin: document how to access host file system

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Hello Guido,


On Fri, 2015-11-20 at 21:51 +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> Hi Ritesh,
> Thanks for the patch! First off wouldn't we be better off improving
> the
> upstream docs?  What didn't you like about them?
> 

I did not try them. Actually I did not know where to look at, for
upstream docs.

> > 77a78,91
> > > Mapping Host File System Directories
> > > ====================================
> > > 
> > > You can map a Host file system directory to the guest. This can
> > > be achieved
> > > using the 9p file system interface in the Guest OS. If your Guest
> > > OS has
> > > support for 9p file system (Linux already has support for it),
> > > you can enable
> > > a share (on the host) and mount it on the guest.
> > > 
> > > For example, create a share on the host named "share"
> > > On the Guest VM, add something like the following in /etc/fstab:
> > > 
> > > share	/mnt/share	9p	trans=virtio,rw,_netdev	
> > > 0	0
> 
> If we do this on the Debian side we should explain the whole thing,
> that
> is the libvirt XML _and_ the client side. What do you think? A bit
> like
> 
>     http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup
> 
> but much shorter. We also need to mention that this is a QEMU/KVM
> thing.

I'm not sure if putting everything complete in the README.Debian file
would be practical. My understanding always was to use this file for
the obvious questions and brief answers to them, and further
pointers/hints on what to look for.



-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System
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