virtiofsd vs qemu

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virtiofsd		qemu
	Project
1	Mentions	1
-	Stars	0
-	Growth	-
-	Activity	0.0
-	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
	Language	C
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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virtiofsd

Posts with mentions or reviews of virtiofsd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-13.

Make your QEMU 10 times faster with this one weird trick
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Oct 2022

FWIW, the contemporary alternative to 9p is virtiofs. It is implemented as a separate service that is running aside the hypervisor. Originally out of qemu, it was rewritten in Rust as a freestanding project that can also be used with cloud-hypervisor and crosvm.
https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd
On NixOS: https://github.com/astro/microvm.nix

qemu

Posts with mentions or reviews of qemu. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-13.

Make your QEMU 10 times faster with this one weird trick
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Oct 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing virtiofsd and qemu you can also consider the following projects:

crosvm - The Chrome OS Virtual Machine Monitor - Mirror of https://chromium.googlesource.com/crosvm/crosvm/

microvm.nix - NixOS MicroVMs

quickemu - Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines. [Moved to: https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu]

redditfs - A simple 9p server to browse reddit

varfs - Super simple, but versatile, 9p filesystem serving multipurpose variables. (ootb with plan9port)