Fwd: Installing virtiofs drivers on Windows 11....

[Mario Marietto]

I've been lucky to find a compatriot :) Sometimes time happens and it makes
me feel happy. You are right. I got confused. I've thought virtio-9p
working depended on virtiofs working. Anyway, neither of those functions
works :( Anyway I'm not sure that the right place to ask this question is
the bhyve ML. It seems more a problem of Device drivers and Windows 11.



Il giorno lun 29 nov 2021 alle ore 19:21 Andrea Bolognani <
abologna at redhat.com> ha scritto:

> On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 06:15:40PM +0100, Mario Marietto wrote:
> > Hello to everyone.
> >
> > I'm testing Windows 11 with bhyve and I've found an annoying problem that
> > prevents me from completing some tasks that I'm working on.
> >
> > It seems that the virtio-9p driver does not work inside the Windows 11 os
> > emulated with bhyve and maybe also with qemu-kvm. When Windows 11 is
> > launched,I don't see the folder "mnt" mounted on the root folder of
> Windows
> > 11. Below you can see which bhyve parameters I've used :
> >
> > bhyve -S -c 4 -m 8G -w -H \
> > -s 0,hostbridge \
> > -s 1,ahci-cd,/home/marietto/Downloads/virtio/virtio-win-0.1.208.iso \
> > -s 2,ahci-hd,/mnt/da0p1/Backups/OS/bhyve/Windows/win11.img \
> > -s 3,fbuf,tcp=0.0.0.0:5900,w=1440,h=900,wait \
> > -s 8,virtio-net,tap0 \
> > ----> -s 9,virtio-9p,sharename=/mnt \
> > -s 30,xhci,tablet \
> > -s 31,lpc \
> > -l bootrom,/usr/local/share/uefi-firmware/BHYVE_UEFI.fd \
> > vm0
>
> You're cross-posting this to the libvirt users and virt-tools
> developers list, and yet you seem to be running bhyve directly so
> neither libvirt nor virt-manager are involved.
>
> I assume that a support list for bhyve users exists. That would be
> the appropriate forum to ask for help.
>
> Anyway, since I'm already replying...
>
> > Investigating a little bit more and reading from this tutorial :
> >
> > https://virtio-fs.gitlab.io/howto-windows.html
> >
> > I've realized that there should be some problem with the WinFsp
> > <http://www.secfs.net/winfsp> - Windows File System Proxy and or with
> the
> > virtiofs PCI device driver because I'm not able to enable the virtiofs
> > service with the command used on the tutorial :
> >
> > C:\> sc start VirtioFsSvc
> >
> > it gives the error : "the dependency service does not exist or it has
> > been marked for the elimination.
>
> ... I will point out that virtio-9p and virtiofs are two completely
> different things. You've configured the former in the host, and are
> trying to access data using the latter in the guest. That's not going
> to work.
>
> I could not find confirmation that either bhyve supports virtiofs or
> that 9p can be used from Windows from a quick search. I'm afraid you
> might be wading into entirely uncharted territory.
>
> > I've attached some screenshots to help you to understand what's
> happening.
> >
> > https://ibb.co/m5vm1hd
> > https://ibb.co/Qd6TS5d
> > https://ibb.co/3018SGd
>
> I highly recommend changing your OS' language to English before
> grabbing screenshots. Limiting the pool of people who might be able
> to help you to those who can understand Italian is unlikely to make
> things any easier for you ;)
>
> --
> Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
>
>

-- 
Mario.
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