diff --git a/gofurther/virtiofs.md b/gofurther/virtiofs.md index d3aa897..a853fcf 100644 --- a/gofurther/virtiofs.md +++ b/gofurther/virtiofs.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ 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 tags: editor: markdown dateCreated: 2022-08-13T00:16:17.437Z @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ It is designed to be fast and optimized for local usage, when the host and the g 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`) {.is-warning} @@ -63,9 +63,11 @@ Just as with other `virtio` devices, `virtio-fs` requires specialized drivers to * 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 @@ -73,11 +75,15 @@ share /mnt/ virtiofs rw,noatime,_netdev 0 2 * 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