On 24 August 2018 at 09:52, Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com> 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.
Can you use the usermode networking "guestfwd" option to make guest tcp connections to wherever:80 go to host:8080 or something instead? (watch out for https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1628971 if it is still relevant, I guess). thanks -- PMM