[Bug 1884169] Re: There is no option group 'fsdev' for OSX

[Christian Schoenebeck]

That's the behaviour on macOS that I would expect ATM. So it's not a
bug.

Your macOS version was compiled without virtfs support, that's why qemu
does not even offer you these options.

Even though 9P is a network protocol, you still need support by host OS
and guest OS for some kind of communication channel between host and
guest. Currently 9pfs in qemu supports either virtio (Linux KVM host <->
Linux guest) or Xen as communication channel. For macOS so far nobody
bothered to implement a communication driver for qemu 9pfs yet.

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: New => Opinion

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Title:
  There is no option group 'fsdev' for OSX

Status in QEMU:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  When I try to use -fsoption on OSX I receive this error:

  -fsdev local,security_model=mapped,id=fsdev0,path=devel/dmos-example:
  There is no option group 'fsdev'

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