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From: Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: 42252@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42252: Not possible to reliably port forward with "guix system vm" anymore
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2020 16:40:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1tnf496.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)

In commit 5379392731b52eef22b4936637eb592b93e04318, the following change
was introduced:

  modified   gnu/system/vm.scm
  @@ -941,6 +941,7 @@ with '-virtfs' options for the host file systems listed in SHARED-FS."
               '())
   
        "-no-reboot"
  +     "-nic" "user,model=virtio-net-pci"
        "-object" "rng-random,filename=/dev/urandom,id=guixsd-vm-rng"
        "-device" "virtio-rng-pci,rng=guixsd-vm-rng"

Unfortunately, this means that in our docs where we suggest doing the
following:

  `guix system vm config.scm` -nic user,model=virtio-net-pci,hostfwd=tcp::10022-:22

Since we now provide our own similar "-nic" field this creates a
*second* network interface at the same address and there is a race as in
terms of which handles connections.  Depending on the race result,
connections to the forwarded port may hang indefinitely.

Ironically, this regression was introduced to solve another regression!
From the commit message:

  This fixes a regression introduced in 8e53fe2b91d2776bc1529e7b34967c8f1d9edc32
  where 'guix system vm' would no longer be using virtio.

What's the right solution?  One could be that "guix system vm" itself
could take an argument that sets up port forwarding in the generated
shell script.  Eg:

  guix system vm config.scm --hostfwd=tcp::10022-:22 --hostfwd=tcp::8888-:80

kind of ugly, but it could work.  WDYT?

 - Chris




             reply	other threads:[~2020-07-07 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-07 20:40 Christopher Lemmer Webber [this message]
2020-07-07 21:00 ` bug#42252: Not possible to reliably port forward with "guix system vm" anymore Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-07-07 22:21   ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-07-08  9:46 ` Bengt Richter
2020-07-11 19:49   ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2020-07-11 21:38 ` Marius Bakke

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