Re: Qemu on Haiku

[Thomas Huth]

On 25/06/2021 06.12, Richard Zak wrote:
> Hello there! I noticed the message which appears when building qemu on 
> Haiku. I'd hate for Haiku to lose qemu, so I would like to help!
>
> What is needed in terms of a build system for continuous integration? I'm 
> not familiar with CI systems, other than simply knowing what they do.

 Hi,

since a couple of month, we already have a Haiku VM in our VM tests, so the 
basics are already there - it's possible to run a Haiku build test on a 
Linux host by typing:

 make vm-build-haiku.x86_64

However, it's still in a quite bad shape, the disk image that is used in 
that VM is not big enough for compiling the whole QEMU sources. So somebody 
needs to add some additional logic there to either increase the disk image 
on the fly or to add a second free disk image to the VM that could be used 
for compilation instead. If you want to have a try, have a look at: 
tests/vm/haiku.x86_64

Also, I'm not sure whether Peter is using this VM already in his gating CI 
tests? I guess not, due to those size limitations...

Finally, we'd also need somebody who's proficient with the Haiku APIs and 
who could help with problems in a timely manner, i.e. we'd need an entry in 
the "Hosts" section in the maintainers file. It should be someone who's 
basically familiar with the QEMU development process, so if you're 
interested, I'd suggest that you try to contribute some patches to QEMU 
first to get a basic understanding of the process (see e.g. 
https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/BiteSizedTasks for some easier tasks), and 
once you feel confident, you could add a Haiku entry to the MAINTAINERS file.

 Thomas