Commit Graph

4 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
M. Mohan Kumar 39f8c32c3f hw/9pfs: Create other filesystem objects
Add interfaces to create filesystem objects like directory,
device nodes, symbolic links, links for proxy filesytem driver

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 20:18:09 +05:30
M. Mohan Kumar daf0b9aca9 hw/9pfs: Open and create files
Add interfaces to open and create files for proxy file system driver.

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 20:14:28 +05:30
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