Fwd: Installing virtiofs drivers on Windows 11....

Mario Marietto
Tue, 30 Nov 2021 09:15:32 -0000

ok I can't because bhyve does not support nested virtualization. sorry for
the mistake.

Il giorno mar 30 nov 2021 alle ore 10:09 Mario Marietto <
marietto2008 at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> I'm confused. Anyway,since I don't know how it works
virtiofs,I'm using
> virtio-9p every day. So I can say that bhyve already supports virtio-9p.
> This is how I make it work under Linux :
>
> -s 8,virtio-9p,sharename=<host-dir-path>
>
> In the guest I need something like :
>
> mount -t 9p -o trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L,rw sharename /mnt
>
> I assume that what's missing on Windows 10 is only the ability to mount
> the shared folder. Since mount is a linux command and windows 10 / 11
> supports linux with it's proper kernel,a good idea could be to try to
mount
> the shared resource within the WSL2  :)
>
>
> Il giorno mar 30 nov 2021 alle ore 09:50 Andrea Bolognani <
> abologna at redhat.com> ha scritto:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 08:00:15PM +0100, Mario Marietto wrote:
>> > I've been lucky to find a compatriot :) Sometimes time happens
and it
>> makes
>> > me feel happy. You are right. I got confused. I've thought
virtio-9p
>> > working depended on virtiofs working. Anyway, neither of those
functions
>> > works :( Anyway I'm not sure that the right place to ask this
question
>> is
>> > the bhyve ML. It seems more a problem of Device drivers and
Windows 11.
>>
>> I think it might be worth a shot. Hopefully FreeBSD is planning to
>> implement virtiofs support in bhyve at some point in the not too
>> distant future, but in the meantime other users might be able to
>> suggest alternative ways to implement host/guest file sharing.
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> --
>> Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
>>
>>
>
> --
> Mario.
>


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Mario.
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