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authorEdward W. Koenig <kingbeowulf@gmail.com>2017-01-29 15:30:33 +0700
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2017-02-03 04:33:06 +0700
commit4e0faecb13eb5e0dfb3a71dd5bf61d7ca1fa0ba1 (patch)
tree1ba2b461c814e6f93b996efae0f376521a55b652
parent011d772d219b41a3a8569973e31bf72cdb542721 (diff)
downloadslackbuilds-4e0faecb13eb5e0dfb3a71dd5bf61d7ca1fa0ba1.tar.gz
system/qemu: Added qemu-bridge-helper setuid.
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
-rw-r--r--system/qemu/README16
-rw-r--r--system/qemu/qemu.SlackBuild9
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/system/qemu/README b/system/qemu/README
index cdefb92ffa..18c9543e9e 100644
--- a/system/qemu/README
+++ b/system/qemu/README
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.
When used as a machine emulator, QEMU can run OSes and programs made for
-one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your own PC).
+one machine (e.g. an ARM board) on a different machine (e.g. your PC).
By using dynamic translation, it achieves very good performances.
qemu (with kvm enabled) achieves near native performances by leveraging
@@ -18,9 +18,10 @@ Disable vnc support via:
VNC_ENABLE=no ./qemu.SlackBuild
-Audio drivers support defaults to "pa,alsa,oss,sdl" and can be adusted e.g.
+Audio drivers support defaults to "pa,alsa,oss,sdl" and can be adusted
+by running the build script like this:
-AUDIODRIVERS="pa,alsa,oss" ./qemu.SlackBuild
+ AUDIODRIVERS="pa,alsa,oss" ./qemu.SlackBuild
We patch the installed udev rules to require membership in "users"
group instead of a custom "kvm" group to use /dev/kvm. If you prefer
@@ -28,13 +29,18 @@ something different, then run the build script like this:
KVMGROUP=group ./qemu.SlackBuild
+To have the qemu-bridge-helper installed setuid root, allowing regular
+users for using extended networking capabilities, do this:
+
+ BRIDGE_HELPER_SETUID=yes ./qemu.SlackBuild
+
Don't forget to load the 'kvm-intel' or 'kvm-amd' module (depending on
your processor) prior to launching qemu-system-ARCH with kvm enabled.
For older/unmaintained qemu frontends, this build also creates a symlink
to qemu-system-ARCH at /usr/bin/qemu-kvm.
-libcacard, spice, usbredir, virglrenderer and device-tree-compiler are
-optional dependencies.
+libcacard, spice, usbredir, virglrenderer, device-tree-compiler,
+libnfs, snappy, glusterfs and vde2 are optional dependencies.
If you wish to emulate ARM, you will want device-tree-compiler.
NOTES:
diff --git a/system/qemu/qemu.SlackBuild b/system/qemu/qemu.SlackBuild
index fb191a82e3..85d2d19b96 100644
--- a/system/qemu/qemu.SlackBuild
+++ b/system/qemu/qemu.SlackBuild
@@ -47,16 +47,18 @@
# 3.1 02-SEP-2016 upgraded.
# 3.2 15-OCT-2016 upgraded to 2.7 release
# 3.3 26-JAN-2017 upgraded to 2.8 release
+# 4.0 28-JAN-2017 add bridge-helper option, README additions/cosmetics (thanks to Andrzej T.)
PRGNAM=qemu
VERSION=${VERSION:-2.8.0}
-BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
KVMGROUP=${KVMGROUP:-users}
TARGETS=${TARGETS:-some}
VNC_ENABLE=${VNC_ENABLE:-yes}
AUDIODRIVERS=${AUDIODRIVERS:-pa,alsa,oss,sdl}
+BRIDGE_HELPER_SETUID=${BRIDGE_HELPER_SETUID:-no}
if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
case "$( uname -m )" in
@@ -165,6 +167,11 @@ find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | gr
# even though qemu now has a gtk gui.
[ ! -z $KVMARCH ] && ln -s qemu-system-$KVMARCH $PKG/usr/bin/qemu-kvm
+# set qemu-bridge-helper setuid if requested
+if [ "$BRIDGE_HELPER_SETUID" = "yes" ]; then
+ chmod u+s $PKG/usr/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper
+fi
+
# move any generated man pages to their proper location
if [ -d $PKG/usr/share/man ]; then
mv $PKG/usr/share/man $PKG/usr