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[Question]: Why samba instead of virtiofs ? #1050

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xlazom00 opened this issue Feb 21, 2025 · 1 comment
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[Question]: Why samba instead of virtiofs ? #1050

xlazom00 opened this issue Feb 21, 2025 · 1 comment
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Why dockur windows use samba instead of virtiofs ?
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kroese commented Feb 22, 2025 •
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Because there was no virtiofs driver for Windows (only for Linux) when I started the project.

Currently there exists one (but not for older Window versions) which is still pretty experimental and buggy, and as far as I know its transfer speed is still slower than using the Samba way. See the last part of this article: https://www.heiko-sieger.info/sharing-files-between-the-linux-host-and-a-windows-vm-using-virtiofs/ that compares both methods and comes to the conclusion Samba is still better.

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