<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=GB2312" http-equiv=Content-Type> <STYLE> BLOCKQUOTE { MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 2em } OL { MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px } UL { MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px } P { MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px } BODY { LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5; FONT-FAMILY: 微软雅黑; COLOR: #000080; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt } </STYLE> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 9.00.8112.16441"></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN: 10px"> <DIV> <DIV style="COLOR: #000000">> FWIW there is someone working on filesystem passthrough using 9pfs. The</DIV> <DIV style="COLOR: #000000">> main stumbling block there is lack of a windows driver.</DIV> <DIV style="COLOR: #000000"> </DIV> <DIV style="COLOR: #000000">You mean that write a windows driver to support 9pfs, </DIV> <DIV style="COLOR: #000000">like the examples as <A style="COLOR: #000000" href="http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/">http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/</A>  ?</DIV> <DIV style="COLOR: #000000"> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="COLOR: #000000">And implement implement the actual file system access (./hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-local.c) on windows?</SPAN> <P style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; FONT: 14px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"> </P> <P style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; FONT: 14px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">As "there are no Windows drivers (virtio-pci device and p9fs) available. " said,</P> <P style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; FONT: 14px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">We also need to write a virtio-pci driver on windows?</P> <P style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; FONT: 14px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"> </P> <P style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; FONT: 14px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">There already exits lots of virtio-* drivers on windows, a virtio-pci driver is what kind of drivers? </P> <P style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; FONT: 14px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">And why need a virtio-pci driver?</P> <P style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; FONT: 14px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"> </P> <P style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; FONT: 14px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px">Thanks, looking forward to your answers.</P> <P style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; FONT: 14px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"> </P> <P style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; FONT: 14px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"> </P></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>