From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tremer To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: Problem with qemu from CU179 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 11:41:54 +0100 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============3529576636100248467==" List-Id: --===============3529576636100248467== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Very good. We don=E2=80=99t like bundled libraries=E2=80=A6 > On 28 Sep 2023, at 11:41, Adolf Belka wrote: >=20 > Hi >=20 > 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 wa= nt to have to maintain their own bundled version of libslirp when more and mo= re 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 >=20 > Looking at libslirp, there is no mention of deprecation. The last version w= as released a year ago but it looks like a couple of commits are merged each = month. The last commit was a month ago. >=20 > Regards, >=20 > Adolf. >=20 >> -Michael >>> On 28 Sep 2023, at 11:00, Adolf Belka wrote: >>>=20 >>> Hi Michael, >>>=20 >>> On 28/09/2023 10:39, Michael Tremer wrote: >>>> Hello Adolf, >>>>> On 27 Sep 2023, at 22:35, Adolf Belka wrote: >>>>>=20 >>>>> Hi All, >>>>>=20 >>>>> In qemu 7.2 they removed the bundled slirp library. This is used for th= e 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 co= nf call. >>>=20 >>> Regards, >>> Adolf. >>>>> The example in the wiki uses the net user. >>>>>=20 >>>>> Unfortunately it looks like nobody ran qemu in testing for CU179. >>>>>=20 >>>>> A user on the forum has run into this problem and it stops his qemu sys= tem from running. >>>>>=20 >>>>> I will do a new build of qemu/qemu-ga (updated to 8.1.1) which will inc= lude the libslirp package tomorrow (28th Sep). >>>>>=20 >>>>> 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 c= an add this as a quick fix. >>>> Best, >>>> -Michael >>>>>=20 >>>>> Regards, >>>>>=20 >>>>> Adolf. >>>>>=20 >>>>>=20 >>>>> --=20 >>>>> Sent from my laptop >>>>>=20 --===============3529576636100248467==--