Monday, February 10, 2020

Video for "virtio-fs: a shared file system for virtual machines" at FOSDEM '20 now available

The video and slides from my virtio-fs talk at FOSDEM '20 are now available!

virtio-fs is a shared file system that lets guests access a directory on the host. It can be used for many things, including secure containers, booting from a root directory, and testing code inside a guest.

The talk explains how virtio-fs works, including the Linux FUSE protocol that it's based on and how FUSE concepts are mapped to VIRTIO.

virtio-fs guest drivers have been available since Linux v5.4 and QEMU support will be available from QEMU v5.0 onwards.

Video (webm) (mp4)

Slides (PDF)