From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Cc: 26797@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26797: qemu looks for smbd at /usr/sbin
Date: Sun, 07 May 2017 17:33:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k25sptq3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y3uayrkc.fsf@fastmail.com> (Marius Bakke's message of "Sat, 06 May 2017 16:42:59 +0200")
Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>>
>>> Qemu comes with support for sharing files with a guest via Samba. This
>>> is done by appending something like this to the qemu-system-*
>>> invocation:
>>>
>>> … -net user,smb=$HOME/Downloads -net nic
>>>
>>> Qemu needs to be told *at configure time* where the smbd executable will
>>> be at runtime. By default this is /usr/sbin/smbd. Users can work
>>> around this problem by installing the “samba” package and creating a
>>> link from /usr/sbin/smbd to the actual executable.
>>>
>>> It would be better to fix this, but this would require adding samba as a
>>> dependency to Qemu, so that the location can be set at configure time.
>>> Alternatively, we could patch Qemu to look for smbd depending on an
>>> environment variable.
>>
>> See commit b344c505f4dff2ecbe981f0a0a3c3d67b222dcca, which removed the
>> dependency and Samba. Prior to that commit, QEMU recorded the absolute
>> file name of ‘smbd’.
>>
>> The problem is that Samba is big:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> $ guix size qemu |tail -1
>> total: 710.5 MiB
>> $ guix size qemu samba |tail -1
>> total: 1203.5 MiB
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Thus it’d be best if we modified QEMU to search for ‘smbd’ in $PATH.
>
> Tangentially, would it make sense to add a "qemu-full" package? I'd like
> to add RBD support when Ceph is stable on Hydra, but that adds another
> ~300MiB to the closure (and a very expensive dependency..).
The day after someone will suggest adding “qemu-fuller”. ;-)
Seriously yes, why not; just wondering whether it should be called
“qemu-ceph-enabled” or something along these lines.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-07 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-06 10:26 bug#26797: qemu looks for smbd at /usr/sbin Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-06 12:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-06 13:03 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-06 14:42 ` Marius Bakke
2017-05-06 18:48 ` Leo Famulari
2017-05-07 15:33 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-04-07 19:22 ` Marius Bakke
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