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pkg/57922: qemu-ga should be shipped separately from emulators/qemu
>Number: 57922
>Category: pkg
>Synopsis: qemu-ga should be shipped separately from emulators/qemu
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: pkg-manager
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Feb 10 20:50:00 +0000 2024
>Originator: Taylor R Campbell
>Release: current
>Organization:
The NetBSD Virtualization
>Environment:
>Description:
qemu-ga, the qemu guest agent daemon (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/interop/qemu-ga.html), is a program that runs in the guest voluntarily let the host coordinate things with it like time changes.
The emulators/qemu package is mainly useful on the host, pulls in a large collection of dependencies like the graphics stack for drawing graphical output from the guest, and weighs over half a gigabyte.
What the guest needs is much more modest and shouldn't need to pull in any of these dependencies, so it should be available in a separate and much smaller package, say sysutils/qemu-guest-agent or sysutils/qemu-ga.
>How-To-Repeat:
try to use qemu-ga in a small VM
>Fix:
Yes, please!
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