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qemu-options.hx: 9p: clarify -virtfs vs. -fsdev

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The docs are ambiguous about the difference (or actually their
equality) between options '-virtfs' vs. '-fsdev'. So clarify that
'-virtfs' is actually just a convenience shortcut for its
generalized form '-fsdev' in conjunction with '-device virtio-9p-pci'.

And as we're at it, also be a bit more descriptive what 9pfs is
actually used for.

Signed-off-by: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <208f1fceffce2feaf7c900b29e326b967dce7762.1585661532.git.qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
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Christian Schoenebeck 2020-05-14 08:06:43 +02:00 committed by Greg Kurz
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``-virtfs proxy,sock_fd=sock_fd,mount_tag=mount_tag [,writeout=writeout][,readonly]`` ``-virtfs proxy,sock_fd=sock_fd,mount_tag=mount_tag [,writeout=writeout][,readonly]``
\ \
``-virtfs synth,mount_tag=mount_tag`` ``-virtfs synth,mount_tag=mount_tag``
Define a new filesystem device and expose it to the guest using a Define a new virtual filesystem device and expose it to the guest using
virtio-9p-device. The general form of a Virtual File system a virtio-9p-device (a.k.a. 9pfs), which essentially means that a certain
pass-through options are: directory on host is made directly accessible by guest as a pass-through
file system by using the 9P network protocol for communication between
host and guests, if desired even accessible, shared by several guests
simultaniously.
Note that ``-virtfs`` is actually just a convenience shortcut for its
generalized form ``-fsdev -device virtio-9p-pci``.
The general form of pass-through file system options are:
``local`` ``local``
Accesses to the filesystem are done by QEMU. Accesses to the filesystem are done by QEMU.