On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 04:52:20PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote: > On Fri, 08/24 09:22, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 09:21:26AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote: > > > Upgrade OpenBSD to 6.3 using auto_install. Especially, drop SDL1, > > > include SDL2. > > > > > > One limitation of this patch is that we need a temporary HTTP server on > > > host 80 port for auto_install, because slirp cannot do guest forward on > > > "host addr". > > > > That's a pretty big limitation, as port 80 requires root privileges, > > and that's a pretty strict no for automated testing IMHO. > > > > Why does it have to be port 80 in particular - is it not possible > > to use 8080 or even better, detect a random free port ? > > OpenBSD autoinstall[1] is hardcoded to fetch from port 80. Maybe we can > instead > persuade it into fetching from a different http server than 10.0.2.2. To do > that > we'd need to implement a new slirp option for either "option tftp-server-name" > or "next-server" according to the manpage. I'll have to experiment with it to > see if it will work. > > Or, do you think there are better options to configure the VM network to serve > the file?
Why not use guestfwd eg guestfwd:tcp:10.0.2.1:80-tcp:127.0.0.1:8080 would redirect the guest IP address port 80, to the loopback interface on the host port 8080. Now you can tell autoinstall to use 10.0.2.1 ? Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|