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’.