libvirt users - Mar 2012 - XML syntax for "dir" attribute when making Host directory available to Windows guest

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").

Can any help?

regards,
cameron

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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