2 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
M. Mohan Kumar	17bff52b62	hw/9pfs: File system helper process for qemu 9p proxy FS ... Provide root privilege access to QEMU 9p proxy filesystem using socket communication. Proxy helper is started by root user as: ~ # virtfs-proxy-helper -f|--fd <socket descriptor> -p|--path <path-to-share> Signed-off-by: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>	2012-01-04 20:14:02 +05:30
M. Mohan Kumar	4c793dda22	hw/9pfs: Add new proxy filesystem driver ... Add new proxy filesystem driver to add root privilege to qemu process. It needs a helper process to be started by root user. Following command line can be used to utilize proxy filesystem driver -virtfs proxy,id=<id>,mount_tag=<tag>,socket_fd=<socket-fd> Signed-off-by: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>	2012-01-04 20:13:39 +05:30