[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1144114: virtiofsd: Fails to mount with "vhost_backend_init failed: Protocol error"

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:28:50 +0100 Simon John <debian3 at the-jedi.co.uk>
wrote:
> Package: virtiofsd
> Version: 1.14.0-2
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> After upgrading from 1.14.0-1 which works fine, to 1.14.0-2, I can
> now not mount any virtiofs shares on Sid (tried on 2 different Trixie
> guests).
> 
I can confirm this observation and seeing the same error messages here.
Also downgrading to 1.14.0-1 and all works as expected again. Both
stable, testing and unstable guests is hit by this bug.

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