Re: Python 2 and test/vm/netbsd

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 16/10/2019 12.59, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> Kamil Rytarowski <n54@gmx.com> writes:
> 
>> On 16.10.2019 08:11, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>> Is this a regression in qemu? How to reproduce the problem? "make
>> vm-build-netbsd V=1" ?
> 
> You'll need to apply the patch from that series:
> 
>   tests/vm: netbsd autoinstall, using serial

Patch (mbox for applying with "git am") is still available in Patchew if
you don't have it in your local qemu-devel folder anymore:

 http://next.patchew.org/QEMU/20190520124716.30472-13-kraxel@redhat.com/mbox

 Thomas