Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 09/18] tests/vm/openbsd: Install Bash from the ports

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 07:29, Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> There also is a patch floating around to auto-install openbsd:
>         https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10749459/
>
> Not fully sure why this wasn't merged yet.  One problem is that this
> patch depends on a new slirp feature (added in the 3.1 devel cycle,
> needed to serve install.conf via http).  Which blocked merge during the
> 3.1 cycle, because depending on unreleased qemu for test builds isn't a
> good idea.  But 3.1 is released, so maybe we can merge that for 4.0 now?

The feature isn't in the installed QEMU for the Ubuntu box I
run the BSD VM tests on, which is what the blocker is -- I don't
want to have to keep around and maintain a non-system QEMU to run
the VMs that are doing the tests here. It would be preferable to
remove the dependency on the bleeding-edge slirp feature.

thanks
-- PMM