Re: Qemu on Haiku

Hello and thanks for the detailed response! I wasn't aware that a Linux host could compile for Haiku as a target, that's interesting.

Seems like the big tasks are:

1) Haiku VM for continuous integration. Is this hosted in Amazon or other cloud infrastructure?

2) Supporting aspects of the qemu code relevant to Haiku.

I'll take a look at that Wiki page to get a feel for things, and I've started with the compilation of the latest code from the repo on Haiku, addressing some issues as they come up.

I am a huge fan of both projects, but also am doing this in my own time. I'm a developer professionally, but working on Haiku & qemu during off hours (though timely shouldn't be a problem). How are things communicated for this project (in regard to your request for someone who can help in a timely manner)? It seems that the vast majority of the mailing list is patch information. What's the primary way for code to be contributed, a merging code though Gitlab or via emailed patches?

În vin., 25 iun. 2021 la 03:09, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> a scris:

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

From:	Richard Zak
Subject:	Re: Qemu on Haiku
Date:	Fri, 25 Jun 2021 22:44:52 -0400