Re: Problem with qemu from CU179

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hello Adolf,

I am happy to bring back user-space networking for QEMU as long as it not been properly deprecated upstream.

-Michael

> On 28 Sep 2023, at 11:00, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On 28/09/2023 10:39, Michael Tremer wrote:
>> Hello Adolf,
>>> On 27 Sep 2023, at 22:35, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi All,
>>> 
>>> In qemu 7.2 they removed the bundled slirp library. This is used for the net user backend and is used by default if nothing else is specified.
>> Hmm, it is not very common to use this kind of network access. I suppose most people use QEMU in connection with libvirt.
> We can always discuss this in the next conf call on following Monday.
> I will submit the patch set anyway and we can decide what to do in the conf call.
> 
> Regards,
> Adolf.
>>> The example in the wiki uses the net user.
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately it looks like nobody ran qemu in testing for CU179.
>>> 
>>> A user on the forum has run into this problem and it stops his qemu system from running.
>>> 
>>> I will do a new build of qemu/qemu-ga (updated to 8.1.1) which will include the libslirp package tomorrow (28th Sep).
>>> 
>>> Hopefully the patch submission that I make for this will be able to be merged into CU180 Testing.
>> No problem, we still have a few weeks before this gets released and we can add this as a quick fix.
>> Best,
>> -Michael
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Adolf.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Sent from my laptop
>>>