bug#26797: qemu looks for smbd at /usr/sbin

bug#26797: qemu looks for smbd at /usr/sbin

[Ricardo Wurmus]

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.

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Ricardo

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bug#26797: qemu looks for smbd at /usr/sbin

[Ludovic Courtès]

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.

WDYT?

Ludo’.

bug#26797: qemu looks for smbd at /usr/sbin

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> 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---

Right, that’s not good.

> Thus it’d be best if we modified QEMU to search for ‘smbd’ in $PATH.

I agree!  I can’t work on this right now, unfortunately, but I’ll
revisit this at some point in the future if nobody else beats me to it.

Thanks for your input!

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Ricardo

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bug#26797: qemu looks for smbd at /usr/sbin

[Marius Bakke]

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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..).

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bug#26797: qemu looks for smbd at /usr/sbin

[Leo Famulari]

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On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 04:42:59PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
> 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..).

If qemu-full is something that would be generically useful, sure.
Otherwise, maybe you could bring it to the potluck!

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bug#26797: qemu looks for smbd at /usr/sbin

[Ludovic Courtès]

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’.

bug#26797: qemu looks for smbd at /usr/sbin

[Marius Bakke]

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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> 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.

This was fixed by Rutger back in
84276503059d46c0a42240f8770f59090614d863 and
0e5d0f66b56221b7de49ab28b607633e413c9110.

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