[Svenstaro]

Is there a reason to use 9p over virtiofs in this case? It looks to me as though virtiofs was made exactly with the idea to deal good performance.

[zimbatm]

NixOS has switched to virtiofs 4 days ago: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/362081

Not all use-cases are faster with virtiofs.

[remram]

> Not all use-cases are faster with virtiofs

Aren't they though? Do you have a counter example?

[stuaxo]

Interesting and may be worth writing a qemu issue about.

[Svenstaro]

Oh cool!

[hackernudes]

The author commented on that in 2022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33200731

[reginald78]

Is 9p compatible with saving VM states? I recently experimented with virtiofs and was disappointed to find it was incompatible so it didn't really work for my use case.

I don't even really need performance, I only really want to be able to grab driver files from a common location and ditch the samba shares.