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Re: [PULL 00/13] Net patches


From: Vladislav Yaroshchuk
Subject: Re: [PULL 00/13] Net patches
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 09:19:20 +0300



ср, 12 янв. 2022 г., 8:39 AM Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>:

在 2022/1/12 上午6:02, Vladislav Yaroshchuk 写道:
>
>
> вт, 11 янв. 2022 г., 5:10 AM Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>:
>
>     On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 12:49 AM Peter Maydell
>     <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>     >
>     > On Mon, 10 Jan 2022 at 03:40, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
>     wrote:
>     > >
>     > > The following changes since commit
>     df722e33d5da26ea8604500ca8f509245a0ea524:
>     > >
>     > >   Merge tag 'bsd-user-arm-pull-request' of
>     gitlab.com:bsdimp/qemu into staging (2022-01-08 09:37:59 -0800)
>     > >
>     > > are available in the git repository at:
>     > >
>     > > https://github.com/jasowang/qemu.git tags/net-pull-request
>     > >
>     > > for you to fetch changes up to
>     5136cc6d3b8b74f4fa572f0874656947a401330e:
>     > >
>     > >   net/vmnet: update MAINTAINERS list (2022-01-10 11:30:55 +0800)
>     > >
>     > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
>     > >
>     > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
>     >
>     > Fails to build on OSX Catalina:
>     >
>     > ../../net/vmnet-common.m:165:10: error: use of undeclared identifier
>     > 'VMNET_SHARING_SERVICE_BUSY'
>     >     case VMNET_SHARING_SERVICE_BUSY:
>     >          ^
>     >
>     > This constant only got added in macOS 11.0. I guess that technically
>     > our supported-platforms policy only requires us to support 11
>     (Big Sur)
>     > and 12 (Monterey) at this point, but it would be nice to still
>     be able
>     > to build on Catalina (10.15).
>
>     Yes, it was only supported by the vmnet framework starting from
>     Catalyst according to
>     https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vmnet?language=objc.
>
>
> Yes, there are some symbols from macOS >= 11.0 new backend
> uses, not only this one, ex. vmnet_enable_isolation_key:
> https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vmnet/vmnet_enable_isolation_key
>
>     >
>     > (Personally I would like Catalina still to work at least for a
>     little
>     > while, because my x86 Mac is old enough that it is not supported by
>     > Big Sur. I'll have to dump it once Apple stops doing security
>     support
>     > for Catalina, but they haven't done that quite yet.)
>
>
> Sure, broken builds on old macOSes are bad. For this case I think
> it's enough to disable vmnet for macOS < 11.0 with a probe while
> configure build step. Especially given that Apple supports ~three
> latest macOS versions, support for Catalina is expected to end
> in 2022, when QEMU releases 7.0.


That should be fine.


>
> If this workaround is not suitable and it's required to support vmnet
> in Catalina 10.15 with a subset of available features, it can be done.
> But I'll be ready to handle this in approximately two-three weeks only.
>
>     Sure, Vladislav please fix this and send a new version.
>
>
> Quick fix as described above is available in v10:
> 20220111211422.21789-1-yaroshchuk2000@gmail.com/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://patchew.org/QEMU/20220111211422.21789-1-yaroshchuk2000@gmail.com/


Have you got chance to test that for macOS < 11.0?

Yes, tested on Catalina 10.15.Works as expected.

Thanks


>     Thanks
>
>     >
>     > -- PMM
>     >
>
>
>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> Vladislav Yaroshchuk



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