Questions tagged [9p]
9P (or the Plan 9 Filesystem Protocol) is a network protocol developed for the Plan 9 from Bell Labs distributed operating system as the means of connecting the components of a Plan 9 system. 9P was revised for the 4th edition of Plan 9 under the name 9P2000 that contained various fundamental improvements. The latest version of the Inferno operating system also uses 9P2000.
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Correct SELinux labels for a kvm/qemu user session VM shared folder
I am trying to set up a shared folder using the 9p protocol for a kvm/qemu VM that runs on the user session (so the qemu process runs as me, not as root). Mounting the shared folder in guest works ...
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Nginx fails to serve files from 9p
I have a VM with a 9p share and nginx. It worked fine until I updated my VM to Debian 10. Since then, it fails to serve files from my 9p share. Nginx returns an empty response and
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libvirt qemu AppArmor 9p hard links
I am using libvirt with qemu on a debian host. One virtual machine has a 9p mount point defined:
<filesystem type='mount' accessmode='mapped'>
<source dir='/mnt/pool/share'/>
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9p / virtfs : new files in shared folder don't belong to the expected user and group
For the last two days I tried to share a folder between the host and a guest virtual machine, both running the latest Debian Stretch.
The folder I wish to share is owned by the myuser, group mygroup ...
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Why is posix.lstat taking such a long time? (duplicity backing up of 9p virtio filesystem)
I have a filesystem mounted with 9p virtio through KVM, and am backing it up using duplicity to a remote SSH server. I' m trying to speed up the backup process, which seems unreasonably slow to me.
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Loading a 9pnet kernel module to a linux kernel 3.16.6-tinycore64
I am trying to use 9p to mount a remote FS. The client machine is a tiny core linux machine. modprobe 9pnet says that module 9pnet cant be found at modules.dep How to add 9p kernel modules to the tiny ...
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Enabling Qemu/KVM Filesystem Passthrough Centos 7
I have a system running Centos 7 with the stock qemu/KVM code. I have several virtual servers running on this system and would like to enable the filesystem passthrough option. So far, I have not ...
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KVM guest cannot write to 9p share owned by non-root
I am aiming to set up full write access to a 9p share for a KVM guest. Both host and guest have the same users/groups with the same IDs. Both host and guest should be able to write to the share using ...
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How to efficiently share host's folder with KVM guests?
I am configuring the service which stores plenty of files uploaded by nginx in /srv/storage dir on host system. These files are processed by worker KVM guests which may create new files or assign ...
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Filesystem passthrough functionality in Centos 6.2?
I have a CentOS 6.3 machine currently running 2 virtualized CentOS 6.2 machines via KVM/QEMU/Libvirt. I'm trying to setup filesystem passthrough between the guests and the host. However the option is ...
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qemu/virt-manager no permisson on shared folder
I have a strange problem. Iam trying to create a shared folder via the add-hardware->filesystem option. For Type and Modus i choose Passtrought and for Driver Path. The Source Path is /free and target ...
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Debian Squeeze Linux 9p virtfs guest mount failure
First some background information on the server:
Host OS: Debian Linux Squeeze + qemu-kvm version 1.0+dfsg-8~bpo60+1
Guest OS: Debian Linux Squeeze
I use qemu-kvm via libvirt. I have set up 9p ...
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Read/write access for passthrough (9p) filesystems with libvirt/qemu?
I have recently started experimenting with the support for passthrough filesystems in recent versions of KVM/QEMU/libvirt. Making the filesystems available for read access has "just worked", but I'm ...
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9p filesystem interacting badly with KVM savevm snapshot
I have a 9p mount inside a VM. I take a snapshot of the VM state with savevm <snapshot>, stop the VM, then restart it with that snapshot (with kvm -loadvm <snapshot>). When I try to ...