[Libguestfs] working with mount-local

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 01:17:23AM +0400, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> 2014-07-16 1:12 GMT+04:00 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>:
> > I believe I investigates making a squashfs from within libguestfs, and
> > although it's possible, it is not possible to stream the output
> > (unlike, say, guestfs_tar_out or guestfs_cpio_out).  This means that
> > the maximum size of the squashfs would be quite small.
> >
> > Nevertheless we could add an API to do it.  (Even better if you can
> > find a way to stream mksquashfs).
> 
> 
> May be i'm wrong but does it possible to create ability to export
> guest file system via 9p proto? If yes - i can mount share with fuse
> inside go application via 9p protocol...

There is some support for 9p in the libguestfs APIs.  I would be
worried about 9p support upstream (in qemu) as it appears to be dead.

Rich.

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