[Lguest] Aufs as blockdevice?

[ron minnich]

9p servers are out there. You can get one from libixp, or from the Go
9p implementation, and there's one written in Python, ...

there's lots of them. But if you don't want to bother with 9p, just
set up an nfs root.

ron

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> Earlence Fernandes <earlenceferns at gmail.com> writes:
>> can you give me some pointers on how to go about implementing this?
>> Why is it not possible to pass in a filesystem? Could I change the lguest
>> userspace daemon to use a mounted fs rather than a file?
>>
>> -Earlence
>
> Well, you need to implement a 9p server.
>
> Eric would have more idea on how difficult this would be in lguest.
>
> Cheers,
> Rusty.
>
>> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>wrote:
>>
>>> Earlence Fernandes <earlenceferns at gmail.com> writes:
>>> > Can I specify a union mounted filesystem (aufs) as the blockdevice
>>> > parameter for lguest?
>>>
>>> Well, the blockdevice parameter is a file, not a filesystem.
>>>
>>> You might want to use plan9fs, in which case you'll have to implement it
>>> for lguest.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Rusty.
>>>
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