FWIW, the contemporary alternative to 9p is virtiofs. It is implemented as a separate service that is running aside the hypervisor. Originally out of qemu, it w

FWIW, the contemporary alternative to 9p is virtiofs. It is implemented as a separate service that is running aside the hypervisor. Originally out of qemu, it was rewritten in Rust as a freestanding project that can also be used with cloud-hypervisor and crosvm. https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd On NixOS: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix