Re: [PATCH 00/11] 9p: Add support for Darwin

[Christian Schoenebeck]

On Donnerstag, 14. Oktober 2021 15:23:25 CEST Will Cohen wrote:
> Correct, sorry for the imprecise language. The use case being contemplated
> is limited to Linux as the guest side, specifically for cross-platform
> tools where the macOS implementation consists of integrating a Linux VM via
> QEMU.
> 
> NixOS (updater of the original patch,
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/122420) would be able to use this to
> provide macOS support via a VM.
> 
> Lima and Podman as containerization alternatives to Docker would like to
> performantly mount volumes between macOS users and their respective VMs.
> Lima currently accomplishes this via sshfs, but would like to move to 9p
> for stability/performance reasons
> (https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/issues/20). Podman has yet to fully settle
> on an implementation at all due to similar outstanding concerns, but the
> furthest along proposed implementation choice has been 9pfs as well
> (https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/11454), pending adoption of such
> functionality in QEMU upstream.

I only had a glimpse on the patches so far. From what I've seen, I don't 
expect much of a problem to bring this series through. I will have a closer 
look on v2 though. I also have to read the old discussions where I was not 
involved yet.

Soft freeze for QEMU 6.2 is close BTW (November 2nd):
https://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/6.2

Best regards,
Christian Schoenebeck