Re: Python 2 and test/vm/netbsd

[Kamil Rytarowski <n54@gmx.com>]

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.