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[bug#29875] [PATCH] gnu: qemu: Add wrapper for Samba.
From: |
Rutger Helling |
Subject: |
[bug#29875] [PATCH] gnu: qemu: Add wrapper for Samba. |
Date: |
Sun, 7 Jan 2018 12:46:16 +0100 |
Hi Ludo,
I tried that at the start already actually, unfortunately it doesn't
work. It'll refuse to start with the following message:
qemu-system-x86_64: -net user,smb=~/tmp: Could not find 'smbd',
please install it.
On Sun, 07 Jan 2018 11:44:35 +0100
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
> Hi Rutger,
>
> Rutger Helling <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > I'm not sure it's as simple as that. AFAIK "/usr/sbin/smbd" only
> > appears in the configure file. You can modify it by specifying
> > smbd=/location/of/binary, which it then builds into the qemu*
> > binaries. I think it has to be a single binary (full path) with no
> > arguments at all or it doesn't work. That's why I chose to do it in
> > this way.
> >
> > Maybe someone more familiar with the QEMU source code can do it by
> > patching the source code itself, but I would have no idea how to go
> > about it. Plus I'm not sure if that would end up being less
> > complex, or if it's even possible at all.
>
> Looking more carefully, ‘fork_exec’ in slirp/misc.c already uses
> ‘execvp’ (meaning that the executable is searched for in $PATH), so it
> may be that configuring with:
>
> --smbd=smbd
>
> is enough to have ‘smbd’ searched for in $PATH, no?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
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