Some news on the Hyper-V support under Samba ...

[Partha Sarathi]

Hi Richard,

Is this patch works against 4.1.19 ? or only against 4.2 ?

Regards,
--Partha

On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Richard Sharpe
> <realrichardsharpe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Earlier in the week DB approached me and indicated that he had gotten
> > a certain way with Hyper-V support for Samba after applying my earlier
> > patches etc but was stuck with one more thing. We chatted about it and
> > I said I would look at implementing that extra thing if he didn't.
>
> DB is Dario Bazan.
>
> > He went ahead and wrote something and got it working, but it turns out
> > that the key piece in the current master is to hack out the following
> > test:
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > --- a/source3/smbd/smb2_create.c
> > +++ b/source3/smbd/smb2_create.c
> > @@ -910,12 +910,14 @@ static struct tevent_req
> *smbd_smb2_create_send(TALLOC_CTX
> >  *mem_ctx,
> >   }
> >   }
> >
> > +#if #SVHDX_NOT_WANTED
> >   if (svhdx != NULL) {
> >   /* SharedVHD is not yet supported */
> >   tevent_req_nterror(
> >   req, NT_STATUS_INVALID_DEVICE_REQUEST);
> >   return tevent_req_post(req, ev);
> >   }
> > +#endif
> >
> >   /* these are ignored for SMB2 */
> >   in_create_options &= ~(0x10);/* NTCREATEX_OPTIONS_SYNC_ALERT */
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > In any event, with these clues, we now have:
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > PS C:\Users\Administrator> net use
> > New connections will not be remembered.
> >
> >
> > Status       Local     Remote                    Network
> >
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > OK           Z:        \\192.168.2.17\sample     Microsoft Windows
> Network
> > The command completed successfully.
> >
> > PS C:\Users\Administrator> New-VM -Name rjstest2 -MemoryStartupBytes
> > 256MB -NewVHDPath Z:\RJSTEST3.VHDX -NewVHDSizeBytes 10000000000
> >
> > Name     State CPUUsage(%) MemoryAssigned(M) Uptime   Status
> > ----     ----- ----------- ----------------- ------   ------
> > rjstest2 Off   0           0                 00:00:00 Operating normally
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > I have also seen a screen-shot of a VM starting ...
> >
> > Attached is a patch that locates all the bits and pieces that might
> > help, although Windows seems to recover from them not being available
> > and does not even need the resiliency patch.
> >
> > Many thanks to DB for bring this to my attention. When he gives me
> > approval I will supply his name since he deserves credit for finally
> > cracking this nut.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Richard Sharpe
> > (何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操)
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Richard Sharpe
> (何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操)
>
>


-- 
Thanks & Regards
-Partha