Recently virtio-9p support was added to bhyve. On the host side it looks this way: bhyve .... -s 25:0,virtio-9p,sharename=/path/to/shared/dir It could also have ",ro" suffix to make share read-only. In the Linux guest, this share is mounted with: mount -t 9p sharename /mnt/sharename In the guest user will see the same permissions and ownership information for this directory as on the host. No uid/gid remapping is supported, so those could resolve to wrong user or group names. The same applies to the other side: chowning/chmodding in the guest will set specified ownership and permissions on the host. In libvirt domain XML it's modeled using the 'filesystem' element: <filesystem type='mount'> <source dir='/path/to/shared/dir'/> <target dir='sharename'/> </filesystem> Optional 'readonly' sub-element enables read-only mode. Signed-off-by: Roman Bogorodskiy <bogorodskiy@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Libvirt API for virtualization
Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.
Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the website:
License
The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code that are not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU General Public License, version 2.0 (or later). See the files COPYING.LESSER
and COPYING
for full license terms & conditions.
Installation
Instructions on building and installing libvirt can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/compiling.html
Contributing
The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
Contact
The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:
- libvirt-users@redhat.com (for user discussions)
- libvir-list@redhat.com (for development only)
Further details on contacting the project are available on the website: