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title: Share a host directory with a guest using virtiofs
description:
published: true
date: 2023-05-29T09:14:51.426Z
date: 2023-05-29T09:17:27.685Z
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dateCreated: 2022-08-13T00:16:17.437Z
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Just as with other `virtio` devices, `virtio-fs` requires specialized drivers to be written for the host and the guest operating system.
## The guest
## Guest configuration
> 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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* Inside the guest VM, mount the folder using the following command to mount the `/opt/share` host directory to the guest, using also the `/mnt` point:
`# mount -t virtiofs share /mnt/`
```
# mount -t virtiofs share /mnt/
```
* To make it permanent, edit `/etc/fstab` to look like the following:
* To make it permanent, add the following line to `/etc/fstab`:
```
share /mnt/ virtiofs rw,noatime,_netdev 0 2
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* Make sure it works before rebooting the guest virtual machine, by un-mounting the share
`# umount /mnt/`
```
# umount /mnt/
```
* and then mounting all share available in fstab:
* and then mounting all share available in `fstab`:
`# mount all`
```
# mount all
```
## Resources