[Qemu-devel] smb option requires full path! Grr!

[Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

I've just spent *hours* tracking this down.

When you invoke qemu with the -smb option, unless you specify the full 
path to the directory which is to be shared, you get all sorts of 
totally weird and unhelpful windows errors.

Fixes that are needed:

1)Most urgently, this documentation page:
    http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-doc.html
needs to be modified. Where it refers to
`-smb dir', it is important to note that dir must be an absolute path.

[Incidentally, I note that the -redir option still doesn't document that 
slirp is broken, and has been for ages. Please can these be updated - it 
will save someone else the many wasted hours I have experienced fixing 
these two bugs]


2)It would be nice if the -smb option to qemu either detected the 
relative path and printed an error, or it corrected it to the absolute path.


3)Perhaps it would be worth printing to stdout:
    "Using smb configuration file /tmp/...../smb.conf"


4)I note that there are lots of defunct, but smb processes which do not 
properly exit until QEMU closes. These are harmless, but rather ugly.


Regards,

Richard