A slirp helper is a process that provides user-mode networking through
a unix domain socket. It is expected to follow the following
specification:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/slirp/libslirp-rs/blob/master/src/bin/README.rst
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Though it used to be called "Mac OS X" and "OS X" in the past,
it was never "MacOS X" nor "OS-X", and it's just "macOS" now.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
The pkg-config file was introduced by commit b729ded which was released
in yajl 2.0.3.
Since all our supported platforms include at least yajl 2.0.4,
use pkg-config to detect the library and set the minimum to 2.0.3.
https://repology.org/project/yajl/versions
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Running QEMU as root is a pretty bad idea, so try to make the
user aware of that as part of the configure summary.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Our current defaults are root:wheel on FreeBSD and macOS, root:root
everywhere else.
Looking at what downstream distributions actually do, we can see that
these defaults are overriden the vast majority of the time, with a
number of variations showing up in the wild:
* qemu:qemu -> Used by CentOS, Fedora, Gentoo, OpenSUSE, RHEL
and... As it turns out, our very own spec file :)
* libvirt-qemu:libvirt-qemu -> Used by Debian.
* libvirt-qemu:kvm -> Used by Ubuntu.
* nobody:nobody -> Used by Arch Linux.
Based on this information, we can do a better job at integrating with
downstream packages: if the distro-specific user and group already
exist on the system then we use them, and if not (or we're building
on an unknown OS) we just use root:root as we would have before.
This change makes it less likely that people building from source
will end up running their guests as root, which is a very desiderable
outcome from the security point of view.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
There is no way that qemu driver can work without being able to
format/parse JSON.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
The basic idea of our configure script is to probe for things
rather than have them enabled by default. This is even more
visible in the next commit where configure fails if qemu driver
is enabled but no yajl is found.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>
This reverts commit c5ae8e0c2b.
Jansson cannot parse QEMU's quirky JSON.
Revert back to yajl.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1614569
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This reverts commit 01ce04375c.
Jansson cannot parse QEMU's quirky JSON.
Revert back to yajl.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1614569
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
If the QEMU driver was requested, require Jansson, since we need to use
the JSON monitor to probe capabilities for all QEMU version supported
by libvirt.
Signed-off-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Just like we allow users overriding path to bridge-helper
detected at compile time we can allow them to override path to
qemu-pr-helper.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
LIBVIRT_ARG_WITH_ALT is more generic than LIBVIRT_ARG_WITH, which
is tailored at switching features on and off.
Rename the macros according to their intended purpose, and add
some documentation to help developers pick between the two.
