Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-05 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/5/19 12:22 PM, n952162 wrote: But, since it's included in the package, and apparently (from the name) will use a NBD device, then I think the dependency is logical I disagree. QEMU itself does not use NBD. Thus QEMU does not need to depend on qemu-nbd. QEMU uses files on mounted file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-12-05 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Ian Zimmerman: > [OpenWrt] needs one crucial bit of configuration that's kind of hidden > (can't be done via the GUI), to let the router advertisements through. Glad to hear that you got things working. You have probably already filed a GUI enhancement request. ;-) -Ralph

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-05 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/5/19 12:50 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: No, but since it is provided by the ebuild, the ebuild should check that the target system is capable of supporting it. The qemu ebuild already spits out warnings about missing kernel options, not all of them essential, so why not this one too? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with IPv6, please

2019-12-05 Thread Ralph Seichter
* gentoo-u...@c-14.de: > The easiest option is if you're using stateful DHCPv6. In this case > you just need to set up your dhcp server to notify your dns server of > any new leases. That's what you consider "the easiest option"? ;-) I usually ask the following of people starting with IPv6: Do

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with IPv6, please

2019-12-05 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Peter Humphrey: > $ ping6 vdsl > ping: vdsl: No address associated with hostname The outcome of ping depends on /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts, and even on the OS of the IPv6 nodes involved. Apple devices will be available as somename.local, with "somename" being what the user configured as

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 12:01:33 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: > qemu-nbd is a utility to act as a NBD server to allow the Linux kernel > to be an NBD client to access qcow(2) image files. > > qemu-nbd is not /needed/ for normal QEMU operation. No, but since it is provided by the ebuild, the ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] nbd ebuild incomplete? [SOLVED]

2019-12-05 Thread n952162
On 12/05/19 20:01, Grant Taylor wrote: On 12/5/19 12:33 AM, n952162 wrote: The emerge should have checked for this and failed. I don't think it should fail.  I've routinely seen emerge check for various kernel / network / other parameters and issue warnings about things not being the way that

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-05 Thread n952162
Very informative explanation. On 12/05/19 20:01, Grant Taylor wrote: On 12/4/19 11:03 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: nbd is a "Network Block Device" driver along the lines of NFS, but it doesn't handle concurrency. https://nbd.sourceforge.io/ I think I'd liken NBD to iSCSI more so than NFS. 

Re: [gentoo-user] nbd ebuild incomplete? [SOLVED]

2019-12-05 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/5/19 12:33 AM, n952162 wrote: The emerge should have checked for this and failed. I don't think it should fail. I've routinely seen emerge check for various kernel / network / other parameters and issue warnings about things not being the way that the ebuild wants. But the ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-05 Thread Grant Taylor
On 12/4/19 11:03 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: nbd is a "Network Block Device" driver along the lines of NFS, but it doesn't handle concurrency. https://nbd.sourceforge.io/ I think I'd liken NBD to iSCSI more so than NFS. Primarily because both NBD and iSCSI provide local block devices that are

[gentoo-user] Re: To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-12-05 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-11-29 00:01, Ralph Seichter wrote: > > The first reason [...] was that my router does _not_ assign fe80::1 to > > itself, but rather some other arbitrary address in the fe80 prefix > > I found an article[1] that I first read years ago. "One method to make > things easier is to manually

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with IPv6, please

2019-12-05 Thread gentoo-user
> Hello list, Hi, > Having been inspired by the recent discussion of IPv6, I decided to try it, > starting with my ISP, my Billion Bipac vDSL modem-router and one host - this > one. Of course it isn't straightforward. > > Zen has allocated me a /64 ND prefix and a /48 PD prefix. I found a way

[gentoo-user] Help with IPv6, please

2019-12-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Having been inspired by the recent discussion of IPv6, I decided to try it, starting with my ISP, my Billion Bipac vDSL modem-router and one host - this one. Of course it isn't straightforward. Zen has allocated me a /64 ND prefix and a /48 PD prefix. I found a way to tell the

Re: [gentoo-user] nbd ebuild incomplete? [SOLVED]

2019-12-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 5 December 2019 12:52:41 GMT n952162 wrote: > where do I start? By not top-posting. > On 12/05/19 09:56, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 08:33:08 +0100, n952162 wrote: > >> Okay, I see from /proc/config.gz that NBD probably needs to be > >> configured with the kernel >

Re: [gentoo-user] nbd ebuild incomplete? [SOLVED]

2019-12-05 Thread n952162
where do I start? On 12/05/19 09:56, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 08:33:08 +0100, n952162 wrote: Okay, I see from /proc/config.gz that NBD probably needs to be configured with the kernel # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD is not set Bummer.  At work, I could just do a apt-get install qemu-nbd

Re: [gentoo-user] nbd ebuild incomplete? [SOLVED]

2019-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 08:33:08 +0100, n952162 wrote: > Okay, I see from /proc/config.gz that NBD probably needs to be > configured with the kernel > > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD is not set > > Bummer.  At work, I could just do a apt-get install qemu-nbd (or > similar) without any more effort. That's

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 08:05:46 +0100, n952162 wrote: > Or maybe the assumption is wrong - after emerging *nbd*, I still get > this when I try to modprobe nbd, which is required for running > *qemu-nbd*: > > modprobe: FATAL: Module ndb not found in directory > /lib/modules/4.19.72-gentoo The