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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was wondering about virt-manager support for the file-sharing option between host and guest in RedHat, CentOS and Fedora.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This appears to be grey out and a complaint about the inability of the installed combination of
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">libvirt and qemu to support this option is displayed. The link below shows the virt-manager screen
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<p class="MsoNormal">WITHOUT the grey-out filesystem option.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/9p_virtio">http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/9p_virtio</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For redhat based linuxes though this appears to be always greyed out in stock builds(even without 9p<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and even when Qemu supports the file sharing option). Why is this?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[root@xxx tmp]# qemu-kvm --version<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>QEMU emulator version 1.5.3 (qemu-kvm-1.5.3-86.el7_1.5), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[root@xxx tmp]# qemu-kvm --help | grep fsdev<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>-fsdev fsdriver,id=id[,path=path,][security_model={mapped-xattr|mapped-file|passthrough|none}]<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[root@xxx tmp]# tmp]#<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">root@xxx tmp]# <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[root@xxx tmp]# rpm -qa | grep libvirt-1.2.8<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>libvirt-1.2.8-16.el7_1.3.x86_64<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[root@xxx tmp]#<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Lawrence Sorrillo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">UNIX HPC System Administrator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">National Center for Computational Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Oak Ridge National Laboratory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Email:
<a href="mailto:sorrillol@ornl.gov">sorrillol@ornl.gov</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Phone: 865-574-6683<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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