Re: [Qemu-devel] "Using Python to investigate EFI and ACPI"

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 09/03/15 23:25, address@hidden wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 07:19:40PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:

>> In any case, if what you need resembles a "general virtio filesystem",
>> then please just use that -- a virtio-block or virtio-scsi disk, with a
>> normal filesystem on it. The protocol is industry standard and the
>> performance of the QEMU (and kernel) implementation is splendid.
> 
> Not at all what I'm looking for; I'm looking for a *filesystem*, like
> virtio-9p, but with significantly better performance.  I agree that
> starting from fw_cfg for that is probably a bad idea; it's more that if
> a high-performance virtio filesystem existed, it might also work for
> fw_cfg. :)

Thanks for mentioning "virtio-9p", now I remember what to point at
instead of it. I recommend Stefan's slides from this year's KVM forum.

https://kvmforum2015.sched.org/event/bca50b64e0fbea734b855498f25d0753
http://blog.vmsplice.net/2015/08/virtio-vsock-zero-configuration.html

Thanks
Laszlo