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rust-virtiofsd package

virtiofsd is no longer installed by default in 24.04 when virt-manager/qemu is installed.

Bug #2054222 reported by ajgreeny
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rust-virtiofsd (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I installed virt-manager in Xubuntu-24.04 and it worked well with Ubuntu-Mate-24.04 as guest but trying to enable shared files and folders between host and guest failed with message that no virtiofsd was available.
Installing virtiofsd as a separate package was successful, allowing sharing as in previous versions of Xubuntu until Mantic 23.10.

Can the package virtiofsd which was not avaiable separately in previous versions be a dependency of virt-manager in order to make sharing much easier to enable?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: virtiofsd 1.10.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.6.0-14.14-generic 6.6.3
Uname: Linux 6.6.0-14-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sun Feb 18 10:26:06 2024
InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-01-13 (36 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Daily amd64 (20240112)
SourcePackage: rust-virtiofsd
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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ajgreeny (ajg-charlbury) wrote :
Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)
affects: ubuntu → rust-virtiofsd (Ubuntu)
ajgreeny (ajg-charlbury)
summary: virtiofsd is no longer installed by defaul in 24.04 when virt-
- manager/qemu is installed. prior to 23.10 it was i believe a default
- install making fie sharing between host and guest much easier.
- virtiofsd is now a separate package but is not a dependency of the virt-
- manager or qemu packages which would make things much easier when
- wanting to share. Is this a possibility or are there reasons why it can
- not be installed by deafult as a dependency. Having installed the
- package manually with apt it works as it did before with no problems
- that I have seen.
+ manager/qemu is installed.
summary: - virtiofsd is no longer installed by defaul in 24.04 when virt-
+ virtiofsd is no longer installed by default in 24.04 when virt-
manager/qemu is installed.
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in rust-virtiofsd (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Mike Ferreira (mafoelffen) wrote :

My thoughts... virtiofsd was added upstream in Debian as a separate package, then appeared as the same in Mantic...

To make it act the same as before, shouldn't it be pulled in with another package as a depends so that users do not have to wonder why it isn't working? <--- Because they do not yet know that it now needs to e installed manually as an extra, instead of it being included?

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