[6.9.0-beta35] virtio-fs fails to start
Trying to create any VM with a simple virtio-fs mount fails
Basic XML:
<filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'>
<driver type='virtiofs'/>
<binary path='/usr/libexec/virtiofsd' />
<source dir='/mnt/user/shared'/>
<target dir='shared_mount'/>
</filesystem>
QEMU logs:
virtio-fsd logs:
stefanha (QEMU person for this feature) said it was most likely because pivot_root doesn't work well under initramf
Minor
After building a custom QEMU 5.2 slackpkg and implementing the workaround described above, I was also able to use virtiofs to pass-through directories on my Unraid host to my VMs. However, determining the correct compilation options for QEMU was a time-consuming, iterative process. I reached out to @limetech and they confirmed that QEMU 6.0 will be included in Unraid 6.10 which is coming "soon". For future readers of this thread, if you are not in immediate need of this functionality, I would re
