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

[Guido Günther]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:28:35PM +0100, intrigeri wrote:
> Guido Günther wrote (13 Feb 2016 16:37:38 GMT) :
> > Hmmm...so how would we go from here? Looking from the VBox->KVM
> > migration for "desktop" scenarios this would need improvements in
> > virt-managers help system or even better: make things simpler by using
> > qemu-ga to actually add a mount point for the 9pfs filesystem.  We seem
> > to have more than enough in  qemu-ga nowadays to make this possible:
> 
> >    https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/qga/qapi-schema.json
> 
> Sounds like a good idea. I guess it would need to be exposed in
> libvirt as a domain option, so that virt-manager can expose it to
> GUI users. Next step may be to raise this topic upstream.

We can already run all the agent commands through libvirt via
virDomainQemuMonitorCommand so the libvirt end is already fine. Somebody
just needs to find the time to issue these comands through virt-manager
and add "a bit" of UI so we can propose it upstream. I'll add least add
this to my todo list.

> 
> > We have such nice tools but sometimes we lack the plumbing to make
> > things simple.
> 
> Absolutely.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> intrigeri
> 
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