GNU bug report logs - #26797
qemu looks for smbd at /usr/sbin

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>

Date: Sat, 6 May 2017 10:27:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: easy

Done: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: qemu looks for smbd at /usr/sbin
Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 12:26:18 +0200
Qemu comes with support for sharing files with a guest via Samba.  This
is done by appending something like this to the qemu-system-*
invocation:

    … -net user,smb=$HOME/Downloads -net nic

Qemu needs to be told *at configure time* where the smbd executable will
be at runtime.  By default this is /usr/sbin/smbd.  Users can work
around this problem by installing the “samba” package and creating a
link from /usr/sbin/smbd to the actual executable.

It would be better to fix this, but this would require adding samba as a
dependency to Qemu, so that the location can be set at configure time.
Alternatively, we could patch Qemu to look for smbd depending on an
environment variable.

--
Ricardo

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