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Re: pkg/57922: qemu-ga should be shipped separately from emulators/qemu



Am 10.02.24 um 21:50 schrieb campbell+netbsd%mumble.net@localhost:
qemu-ga, the qemu guest agent daemon (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/interop/qemu-ga.html), is a program that runs in the guest voluntarily let the host coordinate things with it like time changes.

The emulators/qemu package is mainly useful on the host, pulls in a large collection of dependencies like the graphics stack for drawing graphical output from the guest, and weighs over half a gigabyte.

What the guest needs is much more modest and shouldn't need to pull in any of these dependencies, so it should be available in a separate and much smaller package, say sysutils/qemu-guest-agent or sysutils/qemu-ga.

I came up with wip/qemu-guest-agent. It needs a bit of cleanup and a qemu/Makefile.common but seems OK otherwise. Feel free to give it a go!

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Benny



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