[Virtio-fs] Getting help setting up virtiofs guest

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* David Lomas (dl3 at pale-eds.co.uk) wrote:
> Just to say thanks to Dave (all the best people are called Dave) for the
> pointer to use kernel 5.7. That just worked on the guest, and I can now see
> the host filesystem.
> 
> Perhaps this page <https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/howto-qemu.html> should just
> link to the mainline kernel rather than the virtio-fs one?

Oops yes! We need to update to say you can either use upstream, or use
the virtio-fs-dev branch of that git.

Dave

> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 8:11 PM Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > * David Lomas (dl3 at pale-eds.co.uk) wrote:
> > > Apologies if this isn't the correct place for this kind or request.
> >
> > It's the right place to ask.
> >
> > > I've been following these instructions to set up host and guest:
> > > https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/howto-qemu.html and
> > > https://libvirt.org/kbase/virtiofs.html
> > >
> > > On the host, I've built the latest version of libvirt (6.4.0) and qemu
> > > (5.0.0), and added sections to the domain definition. All appears well
> > (no
> > > errors at least). This is the relevant section:
> > >
> > >     <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'>
> > >       <driver type='virtiofs'/>
> > >       <binary path='/usr/libexec/virtiofsd'/>
> > >       <source dir='/fast_data/test'/>
> > >       <target dir='test'/>
> > >       <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06'
> > > function='0x0'/>
> > >     </filesystem>
> >
> > I think that's OK.
> >
> > > On the guest, I've build the kernel (4.19.28), booted it, and confirmed
> > > virtio_fs.ko is a built-in module.
> >
> > Where did you get that kernel?  It sounds rather old;  the main part of
> > virtiofs is now in the upstream kernel; so if your distro has a recent
> > 5.x kernel, you can just use it.
> >
> > > But on running mount -t virtio_fs test /mnt/test/ I get the following
> > error:
> > >
> > > mount: /mnt/test: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> > qube-server,
> > > missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
> > >
> > > Note both those web pages above suggest using mount -t virtiofs, but that
> > > gives unknown filesystem type 'virtiofs'
> >
> > It changed in the newer kernels to the 'virtiofs'.
> >
> > > I'm at a loss to find more detailed information on how to configure
> > > this—are there other resources online, or can anyone suggest what to try
> > > next?
> >
> > I suspect you're suffering from the older kernel here.  Try a nice
> > shiny new one.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > > Thanks!
> >
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> > --
> > Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert at redhat.com / Manchester, UK
> >
> >

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