[Libguestfs] Fwd: Re: VirtFS Query

Harsh Bora harsh at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Sep 29 15:49:03 UTC 2011


Richard, FYI.

On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:05:42 +0530, Harsh Bora 
<harsh at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi Aneesh,
>
> Richard asked me if we have any plans to provide a solution for this use
> case:
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2011-September/msg00089.html
>
> IIUC, VirtFS as a rootfs is targeted towards this requirement only,
> right? Any inputs ?
>

The right way to do this is to use a export path /guest and bind mount
needed directories within. VirtFS just export /guest and everything
works out easily. I already have autotest driving virtFS as root. So
that works easily

-aneesh




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