[virt-tools-list] "Grey-out" Filesystem add hardware option in virt-manager in RHEL7.1 - kernel 3.10.0-229.11.1.el7.x86_64

[Sorrillo, Lawrence]

Hello,

I was wondering about virt-manager support for the file-sharing option between host and guest in RedHat, CentOS and Fedora.

This appears to be grey out and a complaint about the inability of the installed combination of
libvirt and qemu to support this option is displayed. The link below shows the virt-manager screen
WITHOUT the grey-out filesystem option.

http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/9p_virtio

For redhat based linuxes though this appears to be always greyed out in stock builds(even without 9p
and even when Qemu supports the file sharing option). Why is this?

[root at xxx tmp]# qemu-kvm --version
QEMU emulator version 1.5.3 (qemu-kvm-1.5.3-86.el7_1.5), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard
[root at xxx tmp]# qemu-kvm --help | grep fsdev
-fsdev fsdriver,id=id[,path=path,][security_model={mapped-xattr|mapped-file|passthrough|none}]
[root at xxx tmp]#  tmp]#
root at xxx   tmp]#
[root at xxx    tmp]# rpm -qa | grep libvirt-1.2.8
libvirt-1.2.8-16.el7_1.3.x86_64
[root at xxx  tmp]#

Lawrence Sorrillo
UNIX HPC System Administrator
National Center for Computational Sciences
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Email: sorrillol at ornl.gov<mailto:sorrillol at ornl.gov>
Phone: 865-574-6683

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