Re: [PATCH 0/2] selftests/nolibc: small simplification of test development phase

[Willy Tarreau]

Hi Ammar,

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 11:57:56PM +0700, Ammar Faizi wrote:
> Is there a way to make it work for the default qemu installation?
> Or maybe it's a mandatory requirement to build qemu from the source?
> 
> I use the qemu that comes from Ubuntu apt. I have "qemu-system-x86_64",
> but no "qemu-x86_64". So, something like this...
> 
>   $ which qemu-x86_64
>   $ echo $?
>   1
> 
>   $ which qemu-system-x86_64
>   /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64

Ah now I think I understand Paul's question. I didn't know that the
userland version was not always provided. I've always had both side
by side.

> It would be great if we can avoid building qemu from the source. But if
> not, let's go with that.

As Paul indicated, it's really trouble-free and I think I've only done
that since the very first day I started to use QEMU, reason why I probably
never noticed that not everything was packaged.

Then at least to respond to Paul, it could make sense to add a note that
on some distros the userland version might not always be provided and
might require a pretty simple rebuild of QEMU.

Thanks!
Willy