Fwd: Installing virtiofs drivers on Windows 11....

[Mario Marietto]

It seems that it can work on Windows guest. Did you miss this thread ?

https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/issues/126#

Il giorno mar 30 nov 2021 alle ore 10:15 Mario Marietto <
marietto2008 at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> ok I can't because bhyve does not support nested virtualization. sorry for
> the mistake.
>
> Il giorno mar 30 nov 2021 alle ore 10:09 Mario Marietto <
> marietto2008 at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>> I'm confused. Anyway,since I don't know how it works virtiofs,I'm using
>> virtio-9p every day. So I can say that bhyve already supports virtio-9p.
>> This is how I make it work under Linux :
>>
>> -s 8,virtio-9p,sharename=<host-dir-path>
>>
>> In the guest I need something like :
>>
>> mount -t 9p -o trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L,rw sharename /mnt
>>
>> I assume that what's missing on Windows 10 is only the ability to mount
>> the shared folder. Since mount is a linux command and windows 10 / 11
>> supports linux with it's proper kernel,a good idea could be to try to mount
>> the shared resource within the WSL2  :)
>>
>>
>> Il giorno mar 30 nov 2021 alle ore 09:50 Andrea Bolognani <
>> abologna at redhat.com> ha scritto:
>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 08:00:15PM +0100, Mario Marietto wrote:
>>> > I've been lucky to find a compatriot :) Sometimes time happens and it
>>> makes
>>> > me feel happy. You are right. I got confused. I've thought virtio-9p
>>> > working depended on virtiofs working. Anyway, neither of those
>>> functions
>>> > works :( Anyway I'm not sure that the right place to ask this question
>>> is
>>> > the bhyve ML. It seems more a problem of Device drivers and Windows 11.
>>>
>>> I think it might be worth a shot. Hopefully FreeBSD is planning to
>>> implement virtiofs support in bhyve at some point in the not too
>>> distant future, but in the meantime other users might be able to
>>> suggest alternative ways to implement host/guest file sharing.
>>>
>>> Good luck!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Mario.
>>
>
>
> --
> Mario.
>


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Mario.
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