Libvirt virtio-fs passthrough without root
July 11, 2023•526 words
Libvirt (and by extension, virt-manager) has supported filesystem passthrough to guest for a long time. This is implemented through one of two mechanisms: virtio-9p, or virtio-fs. virtio-9p is basically the virtio version of the famous Plan 9 filesystem protocol. With virtio-fs, the host-side filesystem is passed through directly via a FUSE-like protocol running over the virtio transport, which promises high performance and native POSIX filesystem semantics.
Compared to file sharing with guests...
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