Re: Python 2 and test/vm/netbsd

[Kamil Rytarowski]

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" ?

I can have a look but I need to know exact specifics of the problem.