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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.

• hackernudes 2y ago
  The author commented on that in 2022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33200731 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33200731
• zimbatm 2y ago
  NixOS has switched to virtiofs 4 days ago: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/362081 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/362081 Not all use-cases are faster with virtiofs.
  • remram 2y ago
    > Not all use-cases are faster with virtiofs Aren't they though? Do you have a counter example?
  • stuaxo 2y ago
    Interesting and may be worth writing a qemu issue about.
  • Svenstaro 2y ago
    Oh cool!
• reginald78 2y ago
  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.