virt-manager requires virtiofsd for virtiofs. Since Qemu 8, virtiofsd is no longer bundled and users would need to install app-emulation/virtiofsd. If not, VM launch fails with error messages like here (https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8796136.html?sid=3e57e5dc18f893d9aa0b1e2dca47c7bf) To avoid missing deps, it'd be better to add a USE flag to pull in app-emulation/virtiofsd.
The pull request I've just posted puts the virtiofsd dependency into app-emulation/libvirt. Having it there covers more use cases. Can somebody update the bug summary (if necessary)? I don't have the permissions.
(In reply to Michal Prívozník from comment #1) > The pull request I've just posted puts the virtiofsd dependency into > app-emulation/libvirt. Having it there covers more use cases. > > Can somebody update the bug summary (if necessary)? I don't have the > permissions. Thank you. I edited the summary.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=577d19397bc20460c0aaa049e8cd8b0758e9db63 commit 577d19397bc20460c0aaa049e8cd8b0758e9db63 Author: Michal Privoznik <michal.privoznik@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2023-12-17 20:41:43 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2024-01-26 07:49:34 +0000 app-emulation/libvirt: Add virtiofsd USE flag While technically app-emulation/virtiofsd is not a libvirt dependency (app-emulation/qemu and app-emulation/virtiofsd can function on their own, happily), it's handy (in some scenarios) to drag it automatically in as a dependency. Invent "virtiofsd" USE flag that controls this. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/913212 Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <michal.privoznik@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> app-emulation/libvirt/libvirt-10.0.0.ebuild | 3 ++- app-emulation/libvirt/libvirt-9.9.0.ebuild | 3 ++- app-emulation/libvirt/libvirt-9999.ebuild | 3 ++- app-emulation/libvirt/metadata.xml | 3 +++ profiles/arch/amd64/package.use.mask | 4 ++++ profiles/arch/base/package.use.mask | 4 ++++ profiles/arch/powerpc/ppc64/package.use.mask | 4 ++++ 7 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
In future, it might make sense to change this to an optfeature, but given it's quite important and it used to be bundled in qemu, I think a transitional USE at least makes sense for now.
