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authorBin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com>2022-07-19 21:50:14 +0800
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2022-07-22 19:01:44 +0200
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parent5288bee45fbd33203b61f8c76e41b15bb5913e6e (diff)
docs: Add caveats for Windows as the build platform
Commit cf60ccc3306c ("cutils: Introduce bundle mechanism") introduced a Python script to populate a bundle directory using os.symlink() to point to the binaries in the pc-bios directory of the source tree. Commit 882084a04ae9 ("datadir: Use bundle mechanism") removed previous logic in pc-bios/meson.build to create a link/copy of pc-bios binaries in the build tree so os.symlink() is the way to go. However os.symlink() may fail [1] on Windows if an unprivileged Windows user started the QEMU build process, which results in QEMU executables generated in the build tree not able to load the default BIOS/firmware images due to symbolic links not present in the bundle directory. This commits updates the documentation by adding such caveats for users who want to build QEMU on the Windows platform. [1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.symlink Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bin.meng@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de> Reviewed-by: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@gmail.com> Message-Id: <20220719135014.764981-1-bmeng.cn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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