From: Rutger Helling <rhelling@mykolab.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 29875@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#29875] [PATCH] gnu: qemu: Add wrapper for Samba.
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 12:46:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180107124616.783675de@mykolab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871sj2rlrg.fsf@gnu.org>
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Hi Ludo,
I tried that at the start already actually, unfortunately it doesn't
work. It'll refuse to start with the following message:
qemu-system-x86_64: -net user,smb=~/tmp: Could not find 'smbd',
please install it.
On Sun, 07 Jan 2018 11:44:35 +0100
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
> Hi Rutger,
>
> Rutger Helling <rhelling@mykolab.com> skribis:
>
> > I'm not sure it's as simple as that. AFAIK "/usr/sbin/smbd" only
> > appears in the configure file. You can modify it by specifying
> > smbd=/location/of/binary, which it then builds into the qemu*
> > binaries. I think it has to be a single binary (full path) with no
> > arguments at all or it doesn't work. That's why I chose to do it in
> > this way.
> >
> > Maybe someone more familiar with the QEMU source code can do it by
> > patching the source code itself, but I would have no idea how to go
> > about it. Plus I'm not sure if that would end up being less
> > complex, or if it's even possible at all.
>
> Looking more carefully, ‘fork_exec’ in slirp/misc.c already uses
> ‘execvp’ (meaning that the executable is searched for in $PATH), so it
> may be that configuring with:
>
> --smbd=smbd
>
> is enough to have ‘smbd’ searched for in $PATH, no?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-07 11:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-28 8:32 [bug#29875] [PATCH] gnu: qemu: Add wrapper for Samba Rutger Helling
2017-12-28 17:35 ` Marius Bakke
2017-12-28 23:07 ` bug#29875: " Rutger Helling
2017-12-29 13:28 ` [bug#29875] " Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-29 14:02 ` Rutger Helling
2018-01-07 10:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-07 11:46 ` Rutger Helling [this message]
2018-01-07 14:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-07 14:26 ` Rutger Helling
2018-01-07 22:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
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