Re: Problem with qemu from CU179

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

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Very good. We don’t like bundled libraries…

> On 28 Sep 2023, at 11:41, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> On 28/09/2023 12:04, Michael Tremer wrote:
>> Hello Adolf,
>> I am happy to bring back user-space networking for QEMU as long as it not been properly deprecated upstream.
> Clear. Checking the history, this looks to be qemu deciding they did not want to have to maintain their own bundled version of libslirp when more and more OS's have a system version of libslirp available. Apparently all OS's have it now and hence qemu removed their own bundled version with qemu-7.2
> 
> Looking at libslirp, there is no mention of deprecation. The last version was released a year ago but it looks like a couple of commits are merged each month. The last commit was a month ago.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adolf.
> 
>> -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
>>>>>