Re: Python 2 and test/vm/netbsd

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 16/10/2019 05.00, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 08:31:40PM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 07:25:27PM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 01:58:50PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> [...]
>>>> The configure check also spits out deprecation warnings for
>>>> the NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD tests/vm configurations. It would be nice
>>>> to get those updated.
>>>
>>> CCing the test/vm maintainers.
>>>
>>> Fam, Alex, are you able to fix this and create new BSD VM images
>>> with Python 3 available?  I thought the VM image configurations
>>> were stored in the source tree, but they are downloaded from
>>> download.patchew.org.
>>
>> Fam, Alex, can you help us on this?  Python 2 won't be supported
>> anymore, so we need the VM images to be updated.
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> I'm about to submit patches to remove Python 2 support, and this
> will break tests/vm/netbsd.
> 
> I'm powerless to fix this issue, because the netbsd image is
> hosted at download.patchew.org.

Gerd had a patch to convert the netbsd VM script to ad hoc image
creation, too:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-05/msg04459.html

But there was a regression with the serial port between QEMU v3.0 and
v4.x, so it was not included:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-05/msg06784.html

I guess someone™ needs to bisect that regression, so we can fix that bug
and finally include Gerd's patch...

 Thomas