Very good. We don’t like bundled libraries… > On 28 Sep 2023, at 11:41, Adolf Belka 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 wrote: >>> >>> Hi Michael, >>> >>> On 28/09/2023 10:39, Michael Tremer wrote: >>>> Hello Adolf, >>>>> On 27 Sep 2023, at 22:35, Adolf Belka 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 >>>>>