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title: Share a host directory with a guest using virtiofs
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date: 2023-01-24T16:49:37.566Z
date: 2023-02-02T19:05:40.611Z
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dateCreated: 2022-08-13T00:16:17.437Z
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# Sharing a directory
> *As of January 2023, virtio-fs is only available for virtual machines managed by the system libvirt instance (`qemu:///system`)*
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> *As of January 2023, virtio-fs does not feature a read-only mode. Do not share a host directory with an untrusted guest*.
> For KVM/QEMU, as of January 2023, virtio-fs is only available for virtual machines managed by the system libvirt instance (`qemu:///system`)
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[Virtio-fs](https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/), shorts for virtio shared filesystem, allows you to share a directory located on the host with a guest.
> As of January 2023, virtio-fs does not support read-only mode, meaning a guest will be able to write to the host's folder.
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[Virtio-fs](https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/), shorts for virtio shared filesystem, allows for a directory located on the host to be shared with a guest.
It is designed to be fast and optimized for local usage, when the host and the guest are located on the same physical machine.
Just as with other virtio devices, it requires specialized drivers to be written for the guest operating system.
## The guest
### Edit XML configuration
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<filesystem type="mount" accessmode="passthrough">
<driver type="virtiofs"/>
<source dir="/mnt/"> # The host directory to be shared with the guest
<target dir="share"/> # Contrary to what the name implies, this is the tag used inside the guest
<source dir="/opt/share"> # The host directory to be shared with the guest
<target dir="share"> # The target dir value refers to the tag used inside the guest to describe the share.
</filesystem>
[...]
</devices>
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### Mount the folder inside the guest
* Inside the guest VM, mount the folder using the following commmand to mount the `/mnt` host directory on the guest, using also the `/mnt` point:
* Inside the guest VM, mount the folder using the following command to mount the `/mnt` host directory on the guest, using also the `/mnt` point:
`# mount -t virtiofs share /mnt/`