VirtIO-FS Is Looking Quite Good For Shared File-System With VMs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: VirtIO-FS Is Looking Quite Good For Shared File-System With VMs

Added back to Linux 5.4 was VirtIO-FS for better file/folder sharing with guest VMs that makes use of the FUSE protocol but is much faster than the likes of virtio-9p...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VirtIO-FS-Looking-Good-2020

[Danniello]

Will they consider create Windows client maybe?

Transparent access to Linux host files directly from Windows VM is the second most wanted feature in KVM/QEMU for me (after 3D acceleration, and maybe better audio support

[Britoid]

Will they consider create Windows client maybe?

Transparent access to Linux host files directly from Windows VM is the second most wanted feature in KVM/QEMU for me (after 3D acceleration, and maybe better audio support

Given that Red Hat supports Windows guests, I wouldn't be surprised.

[CuriousTommy]

If I understand this correctly, the VirtIO-FS stuff has already been upstreamed, right?

Given that Red Hat supports Windows guests, I wouldn't be surprised.

We will see. They don’t always offer support for everything.

[caligula]

Apparently this is way better than Virtualbox file sharing?

[Britoid]

Apparently this is way better than Virtualbox file sharing?

Anything is going to be better than how VirtualBox does things.

[gggeek]

What I'd actually love to have is the opposite: a virtio-fs daemon for windows, as I run win10 as base os, and linux in virtualbox (there are reasons for that, no need to tell mewhy you think it's a fscked up setup).
Currently I use samba to export the date from the vm to windows instead of doing it the opposite way because a) windows fs does not like cases-sensitive files and b) io-intensive apps running in the vm like it a lot.
The main problems I have at the moment are the fact that network restarts mean I loose my samba mounts, and the fact that I have to start the vm in order to be able to access its contents...