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...trans=virtio /mnt/SASInstaller /mnt/SASInstaller The page you referenced also mentions using -oversion=9p2000.L. There is some additional info on the versions at http://landley.net/kdocs/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt; that page says .L is the default, while http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup#Starting_the_Guest_using_libvirt says it's .U. I don't know how to tell which I ended up with. Thanks for the pointer. Ross ________________________________________ From: Ján Tomko [jtomko@redhat.com] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 1:43 AM To: Boylan, Ross Cc: libvirt-users@redhat.com Sub...

Hi, I would like to use libguestfs to help me setup a VM that I run later with qemu to debug my linux kernel (via qemu -kernel <mykernel> -append ...). One problem I face for instance is that my VM lacks the modules matching my kernel version. So what would you consider as the best option here to load the modules for the kernel ? Should I upload the modules from the host to the VM

...u can use guestfish or virt-make-fs to rebuild the virtual disk (relatively) quickly. virt-make-fs /lib/modules/`uname -r` modules.img takes 11.2 seconds (warmed up) on my machine. (2) Use 9p to export the /lib/modules directory from the host into the guest. http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup has instructions how to do this. This way you don't need to build any modules disk at all, but you will need to compile 9p into your test kernel and have an init script that mounts the 9p disk quite early in the boot process (before any modules are needed). Hope that is of some help. Rich....

I have a directory on the host that I would like to be visible in the guest/domain. Using virt-manager I selected the directory, resulting in this configuration: <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'> <source dir='/mnt/SASInstaller'/> <target dir='/mnt/SASInstaller'/> <address type='pci'

...hat I venture on to such a heady newsgroup, but I'm about ready to throw myself off a bridge after getting this all set up and apparently working only to be struck down by permissions and selinux hell (either, or both). I've followed instructions here: http://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup http://troglobit.github.io/blog/2013/07/05/file-system-pass-through-in-kvm-slash-qemu-slash-libvirt/ http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/9p_virtio The page at the last link helpfully concludes: Note: likely to hit some issues w/ privileges since Fedora libvirt runs guests unprivileged and with SELinux...