[Virtio-fs] Compiling virtio-fs/qemu on Mac

[Vivek Goyal]

On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 08:36:37PM -0400, Anthony J Rabbito wrote:
> Hi All,
> I'm having some trouble getting virt9p built with Qemu on Darwin. Given
> that virtio-fs is progressing nicely i'm wondering if anyone has had any
> success building for Darwin?
> Looking to build a podman machine with shared directories.
> Thanks,

Hi Anthony, 

I have never tried building qemu/virtiofsd for Darwin.

My understanding is that virtiofsd is supposed to be running on Linux.
It has code which makes assumption about linux specific behavior. So
I doubt it will work correctly on Darwin even if you managed to
compile it.

Vivek

> Anthony Rabbito

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