[libvirt-users] XML syntax for "dir" attribute when making Host directory available to Windows guest

[Cameron Smith]

Thanks Daniel.

There are VirtIO drivers available for Windows, how would I know if these include VirtIO-9p?
http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/results.aspx?text=Red+Hat&bCatID=1282&avc=10&ava=0&OR=5&=Go&chtext=&cstext=&csttext=&chbtext=

cameron

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> To: "Cameron Smith" <cameron.smith at engco.co.mz>
> Cc: libvirt-users at redhat.com
> Sent: Wednesday, 21 March, 2012 12:00:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [libvirt-users] XML syntax for "dir" attribute when making Host directory available to Windows guest
> 
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:32:08AM +0200, Cameron Smith wrote:
> > Hi, I have the following setup:
> >  Host: Ubuntu 10.04
> >  Guest: Windows 2008 R2
> >  Kernel: 2.6.32-40-generic
> >  virt-inst: 0.500.1-2ubuntu6.2
> >  qemu-kvm: 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.18
> > 
> > All is working, however I would now like to share a given directory
> > on the host with the guest.   Using the "virsh edit" command I
> > have prepared the following XML configuration snippet:
> >  <filesystem type='mount'>
> >   <source dir='/home/cameron/zip/hla'/>
> >   <target dir='/mnt/hla'/>
> >  </filesystem>
> > 
> > My problem is the "target" element - what value should I use in the
> > "dir" attribute, given that Windows drive paths do not follow Unix
> > format (e.g. "F:\" versus "/mnt/hla").
> 
> For virtio-9p the target is not actually a directory path, but a
> "mount
> tag". The guest OS itself is responsible for deciding where to mount
> it.
> 
> This is all academic for you though, since AFAIK, there is no
> virtio-9p
> driver available for Windows.
> 
> 
> Daniel
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