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A comment on Virtual I/O Device (Virtio) Version 1.1.

Re:Virtual I/O Device (Virtio) Version 1.1 by jws on Saturday April 20, 2019 @12:37PM (#19707452)
I wonder what has happened with the VirtFS filesystem over virtio device. This presented a 9p interface directly in virtio to share filesystems between machines. The only reference I see in the spec is the 0x1009 device id being allocated to the 9P transport.
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Re:Virtual I/O Device (Virtio) Version 1.1 by tjfontaine on Saturday April 20, 2019 @12:59PM (#19707563)
I believe some of the thinking has shifted toward virtio-fs[1] instead of the 9p/network oriented models. Though this requires hypervisor locality for sharing among VMs.

[1] https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/

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Re:Virtual I/O Device (Virtio) Version 1.1 by babkayaga on Saturday April 20, 2019 @09:53PM (#19710095)
At some level yes. But virtio 9pfs is still widely used. It's just that no one yet bothered writing up the spec.
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