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debian11: Add virtiofs as a supported device

Victor Toso requested to merge victortoso/osinfo-db:fix96-add-virtio-fs into master

virtiofs has been added to 5.4 kernel [0] which is supported by Debian 11 (kernel 5.10)

Issue #96 (closed) also asked to add in debian10 but initial kernel version of debian10 is kernel 4.9

Tested with Debian11 live image

sudo virt-install \
--name debian11 \
--memory 4096 \
--cpu host \
--cdrom $HOME/images/debian-live-11.4.0-amd64-gnome.iso  \
--os-variant debian11 \
--memorybacking source.type=memfd,access.mode=shared \
--filesystem driver.type=virtiofs,source.dir=/tmp/,target.dir=myfolder \
--transient \
--destroy-on-exit

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