Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> 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’.
