Marius Bakke skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Ricardo Wurmus 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’.