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| author | Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> | 2007-10-23 13:47:31 -0500 |
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| committer | Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> | 2007-10-23 13:47:31 -0500 |
| commit | b530cc794024be227876a089e66fb17b7b512763 (patch) | |
| tree | 70b2c555ea9cfe0337a7e25b8cf57c0236efe242 /Documentation | |
| parent | 0b776eb5426752d4e53354ac89e3710d857e09a7 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-b530cc794024be227876a089e66fb17b7b512763.tar.gz lwn-b530cc794024be227876a089e66fb17b7b512763.zip | |
9p: add virtio transport
This adds a transport to 9p for communicating between guests and a host
using a virtio based transport.
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt index b90f537af35c..bf8080640eba 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt @@ -42,10 +42,12 @@ OPTIONS trans=name select an alternative transport. Valid options are currently: - unix - specifying a named pipe mount point - tcp - specifying a normal TCP/IP connection - fd - used passed file descriptors for connection + unix - specifying a named pipe mount point + tcp - specifying a normal TCP/IP connection + fd - used passed file descriptors for connection (see rfdno and wfdno) + virtio - connect to the next virtio channel available + (from lguest or KVM with trans_virtio module) uname=name user name to attempt mount as on the remote server. The server may override or ignore this value. Certain user |