9p_virtio

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    [TUTORIAL] Proxmox storage - Host to VM folder passthrough with 9p

    I use 9p mainly because of ZFS. ZFS over NFS uses ZFS sync. This means the writes are completed to disk before they're written.... instead of being written into ZFS RAM. If you disabled ZFS sync over NFS, you'll will lose 5 seconds or so of writes on a power failure. No biggie, but why bother --...
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    Low overhead low-level method of sharing filesystems

    Hi, Wondering what methods there are of sharing a filesystem from a host to a guest in Proxmox. I looked into 9p and found a forum thread from 2012 where dietmar says "[...]We do not want to implement that now." Long story short, I have a 10TB XFS filesystem that I need to access read-only from...
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    Feature Request: Add 9p_virtio Filesystem Pathrough to share Host files with Guest.

    The approach of 9p_virtio (http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/9p_virtio) is very usefull one, especially for clustered environments were you need shared Webroot (Readonly), within several KVM VMs, sharing config files e.g. That shoudn't be that hard to implement because its already implemented into...

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