Re: [Qemu-devel] [kata-dev] [ANNOUNCE] virtio-fs v0.3 release

[Peng Tao]

On 2019/8/20 16:09, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Peng Tao (address@hidden) wrote:
> > On 2019/8/20 00:04, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > > I am delighted to announce the release of virtio-fs v0.3, a shared file
> > > system that lets virtual machines access a directory tree on the host.
> > > This release is based on QEMU 4.1.0 and Linux 5.3-rc3.
> > Good news! As virtio-fs is maturing and stabilizing, what's the plan for
> > upstreaming both qemu and kernel part of it?
>
> We're working on that.
> A few days ago I sent the core qemu code to qemu-devel marked as
> experiemental;  Vivek is planning on sending another kernel version out.
Cool. Looking forward to seeing them in upstream code base;)

Cheers,
Tao
> Dave
>
> > Cheers,
> > Tao
> >
> > > For more information about virtio-fs: https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/
> > >
> > > This is a development release aimed at early adopters of virtio-fs.  Work is
> > > being done to upstream the code into Linux and QEMU.  We expect to stop
> > > publishing virtio-fs releases once the code has been merged by these upstream
> > > projects.
> > >
> > > Where to get it:
> > >
> > >     https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/linux/-/tags/virtio-fs-v0.3
> > >     https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/qemu/-/tags/virtio-fs-v0.3
> > >
> > > Changes:
> > >
> > >    * Please note that the mount syntax has changed to:
> > >
> > >        # mount -t virtio_fs myfs /mnt -o ...
> > >
> > >      The old syntax was "mount -t virtio_fs none /mnt -o tag=myfs,...".
> > >
> > >    * virtiofsd --fd=FDNUM takes a listen socket file descriptor number.  File
> > >      descriptor passing is an alternative way to manage the vhost-user UNIX
> > >      domain socket.  The parent process no longer needs to wait for virtiofsd to
> > >      create the listen socket before spawning the VM.
> > >
> > >    * virtiofsd --syslog logs to syslog(2) instead of stderr.  Useful for 
> > > unifying
> > >      logging and when the virtiofsd process is not being supervised.
> > >
> > >    * virtiofsd --thread-pool-size=NUM sets the maximum number of worker threads
> > >      for FUSE request processing.  This can be used to control the host queue
> > >      depth.  The default is 64.
> > >
> > >    * Performance improvements and bug fixes.
> > >
> > > Note for Kata Containers: the new kernel is not compatible with existing
> > > Kata Containers releases due to the mount syntax change.  To try it out,
> > > please apply the following kata-runtime patch:
> > >
> > >     
> > > https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/runtime/commit/a2e44de817e438c02a495cf258039774527e3178
> > >
> > > Kata Containers patches for virtio-fs v0.3 are under development and will be
> > > submitted to Kata soon.
> > >
> > > Thanks to the following people for contributing code and to many more
> > > for helping the virtio-fs effort:
> > >
> > > Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>
> > > Eric Ren <address@hidden>
> > > Eryu Guan <address@hidden>
> > > Ganesh Maharaj Mahalingam <address@hidden>
> > > Jiufei Xue <address@hidden>
> > > Liu Bo <address@hidden>
> > > Masayoshi Mizuma <address@hidden>
> > > Miklos Szeredi <address@hidden>
> > > Peng Tao <address@hidden>
> > > piaojun <address@hidden>
> > > Sebastien Boeuf <address@hidden>
> > > Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>
> > > Vivek Goyal <address@hidden>
> > > Xiaoguang Wang <address@hidden>
> > >
> > >
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