On Mittwoch, 24. August 2022 17:11:16 CEST Thomas Huth wrote:
At the point in time we're going to release QEMU 7.2, all supported
host OS distributions will have a libslirp package available, so
there is no need anymore for us to ship the slirp submodule. Thus
let's clean up the related tests and finally remove the submodule now.
v2:
- Added patches to clean up and adapt the tests
- Rebased the removal patch to the latest version of the master branch
Thomas Huth (6):
tests/docker: Update the debian-all-test-cross container to Debian 11
tests/vm: Add libslirp to the VM tests
tests/lcitool/libvirt-ci: Update the lcitool module to the latest
version
tests: Refresh dockerfiles and FreeBSD vars with lcitool
tests/avocado: Do not run tests that require libslirp if it is not
available
Remove the slirp submodule (i.e. compile only with an external
libslirp)
And I was wondering (bisecting) why network silently stopped working here.
While I understand the motivation for this change, it's probably not a user
friendly situation to just silently decease functionality. As slirp was the
default networking (i.e. not just some exotic QEMU feature), wouldn't it make
sense then to make missing libslirp a build-time error by default?