Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2] block: add native support for NFS

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:03:24AM +0100, Peter Lieven wrote:
> 
> 
> > Am 17.12.2013 um 18:32 schrieb "Daniel P. Berrange" <address@hidden>:
> > 
> >> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:15:25AM +0100, Peter Lieven wrote:
> >> This patch adds native support for accessing images on NFS shares without
> >> the requirement to actually mount the entire NFS share on the host.
> >> 
> >> NFS Images can simply be specified by an url of the form:
> >> nfs://<host>/<export>/<filename>
> >> 
> >> For example:
> >> qemu-img create -f qcow2 nfs://10.0.0.1/qemu-images/test.qcow2
> > 
> > Does it support other config tunables, eg specifying which
> > NFS version to use 2/3/4 ? If so will they be available as
> > URI parameters in the obvious manner ?
> 
> currently only v3 is supported by libnfs. what other tunables would you like 
> to see?

I didn't have any particular list in mind beyond just protocol for now. 


Daniel
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