Fwd: Re: Compiling QEMU to get virtio-fs driver

[Keith Monahan]

cc: qemu-discuss because I clearly can't figure out how mailing lists 
work. :)

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Subject: Re: Compiling QEMU to get virtio-fs driver
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 10:14:10 -0400
From: Keith Monahan <keith@techtravels.org>
To: CYBER PUNK <brodiepetersen1@gmail.com>

I'm far from an expert here, but I think the right answer is to simply 
build it from source. I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS, and it built with 
only minor problems from missing dependencies.

https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/Linux

Use git to clone the repository for the latest bleeding edge, or 
download the zip from one of the previous releases here

https://www.qemu.org/download/#source

Generally the process for this sort of thing is:

* Obtain the code (either from git, or from a downloaded zip)
* cd into the main folder, and run configure
* resolve any complaints about things missing when you do previous 
steps, which for ubuntu is just "apt-get install xyz" where xyz is the 
missing thing
* run "make"
* look in the build folder for executables

This is what I did for obtaining the latest version on Ubuntu, and it 
worked fine.

Hope this helps.
Keith


On 10/2/2020 5:02 AM, CYBER PUNK wrote:
> Hello
>
> Im currently trying to use the QEMU/KVM with virtmanager onubuntu 20.04 
> and I want to be able to map a folder on the host to a windows 10 VM 
> with virtio-fs ive done it in manjro as the latest version of qemu was 
> avalable on it but i'd prefer to use a more stable and widely supported 
> distro like ubuntu. From what I understand i need qemu 5.0 and higher 
> but ubuntu has an older version.
>
> My question is how do i upgrade the installed version  so that it has 
> the virtio-fs driver in qemu