Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 00/12] tests: Add VM based build tests (for non-x86_64 and/or non-Linux)

[Kamil Rytarowski]

On 31.08.2017 16:27, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 31 August 2017 at 15:04, Kamil Rytarowski <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Could we please add SmartOS image. It's an Illumos distribution,
>> previously known as OpenSolaris.
>>
>> qemu is actively maintained for SmartOS in pkgsrc.
>>
>> The latest build fixes were introduced less than a week ago.
>> https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/commit/f2608af5433f1491a92567bf570e9349dffbda7a
> 
> Maintaining out of tree patches without posting them upstream
> is rather counterproductive, because if the host OS doesn't
> build or have anybody submitting patches to fix it upstream
> we will conclude that it's unused and delete the support entirely.
> That E1000_SEC define has been around for nearly 10 years
> without anybody saying it was a problem, for instance.
> (Indeed Solaris is probably next after AIX on the "nobody
> came along to tell us they cared enough to help us maintain
> it" list for removal as a result.)
> 

Fully agreed. I keep slowly unloading pkgsrc from the downstream patches.

>> I'm going to submit the SmartOS patches to fix the build
>> regardless of the decision.
> 
> Thank you. Do you also have some instructions on how to
> get it running in a VM or something so we can add it to
> our build tests? (Login on a build machine, or a SmartOS
> host in the gcc compile farm, would work too).
> 

I use a Joyent machine for pkgsrc developers. I'm right now test
building 2.10.0 (including the dependencies).

I don't have any first-time starter.. This wiki might be useful.
https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Download+SmartOS

SmartOS is a regular UNIX-like OS (or even certified UNIX-based).

> thanks
> -- PMM
>

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