neonvm: hacking on adding virtio-fs support #963
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virtio-fs v1.11.0 supports live migration (albeit, with some major caveats).
There's maybe some cool opportunities there - figured it's worth playing around with.
Current status: using current vm-deploy fails with QEMU saying
We're using an old version of QEMU, but I'm not actually sure if support for migratable vhost-user fs devices has been released yet (if it's even been merged at all!).
More digging required...
See also https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/merge_requests/206
See also https://www.notion.so/neondatabase/25e6aa0142e94e8fab15fbb2ba237757
Also, included some fixes to issues I noticed; those will be split off into separate PRs.