[libvirt] [PATCH v3 libvirt 3/3] qemu: add support for MTP filesystem

Giuseppe Scrivano gscrivan at redhat.com
Wed Aug 20 12:19:01 UTC 2014


Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com> writes:

> Question that pops up immediately: do we want to commit to something
> that even qemu developers don't believe yet? What will happen when
> qemu decides to switch to 'root' attribute again? Libvirt will have to
> adapt which won't work with older qemus supporting 'x-root' only.

I am not sure how usually libvirt deals with these cases, but to me it
seems like that we should use the "stable" attribute name; or just
postpone this series/feature.

>
> And what's this desc= attribute for anyway? I've put in several
> different values and it seems to me like nothing changed.

it is the name given to the MTP share on the guest, I see it displayed
in the guest, at least Nautilus shows it.

Regards,
Giuseppe




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