I noticed that I can't run any avocado tests on macOS because the QMP unix socket path is too long:
$ ./configure --target-list=arm-softmmu $ make $ make check-avocado AVOCADO_TESTS=tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py changing dir to build for /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make "check-avocado"... GIT ui/keycodemapdb meson tests/fp/berkeley-testfloat-3 tests/fp/berkeley-softfloat-3 dtc slirp AVOCADO tests/avocado Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_virt Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_emcraft_sf2 Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_emcraft_sf2 Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_raspi2_initrd Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_raspi2_initrd Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_exynos4210_initrd Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_exynos4210_initrd Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_cubieboard_initrd Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_cubieboard_initrd Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_cubieboard_sata Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_cubieboard_sata Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_quanta_gsj Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_quanta_gsj_initrd Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_quanta_gsj_initrd Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_quanta_gsj_initrd Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_orangepi Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_orangepi_initrd Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_orangepi_initrd Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_orangepi_sd Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_orangepi_sd Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_orangepi_bionic_20_08 Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_orangepi_uboot_netbsd9 Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_orangepi_uboot_netbsd9 Fetching asset from tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_ast2600_debian JOB ID : 84bd26125345c6f12c92d118e98acde6aacfea57 JOB LOG : /Users/pdel/qemu/build/tests/results/job-2022-07-02T11.24-84bd261/job.log (01/16) tests/avocado/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test_arm_virt: ERROR: ConnectError: Failed to establish connection: AF_UNIX path too lo ng\n Command: \n Output: None\n (0.11 s) Interrupting job (failfast). RESULTS : PASS 0 | ERROR 1 | FAIL 0 | SKIP 15 | WARN 0 | INTERRUPT 0 | CANCEL 0 The job log shows a backtrace that points to the QMP monitor's unix socket path: 2022-07-02 11:24:05,906 protocol L0554 DEBUG| Awaiting connection on /var/folders/d7/rz20f6hd709c1ty8f6_6y_z40000gn/T/avo_qemu_sock_uh3w_dgc/qemu-37331-10bacf110-monitor.sock ... 2022-07-02 11:24:05,907 protocol L0426 ERROR| Failed to establish connection: OSError: AF_UNIX path too long I think the path limit for unix sockets on macOS might be 104 [1] /* * [XSI] Definitions for UNIX IPC domain. */ struct sockaddr_un { unsigned char sun_len; /* sockaddr len including null */ sa_family_t sun_family; /* [XSI] AF_UNIX */ char sun_path[104]; /* [XSI] path name (gag) */ }; The path we're using is exactly 105 characters: $ python Python 2.7.10 (default, Jan 19 2016, 22:24:01) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.2 (clang-700.1.81)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> len('/var/folders/d7/rz20f6hd709c1ty8f6_6y_z40000gn/T/avo_qemu_sock_uh3w_dgc/qemu-37331-10bacf110-monitor.sock') 105 In this change I removed some of the unnecessary elements of the path, to keep us under the limit. This seemed like the simplest thing to do, and I imagine the extra human-readable elements were just added to make it easier to identify left-over sockets or something else related to debugging. [1]: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX12.3.sdk/usr/include/sys/un.h Signed-off-by: Peter Delevoryas <pe...@pjd.dev> --- python/qemu/machine/machine.py | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/python/qemu/machine/machine.py b/python/qemu/machine/machine.py index 37191f433b..93451774e3 100644 --- a/python/qemu/machine/machine.py +++ b/python/qemu/machine/machine.py @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ def __init__(self, self._wrapper = wrapper self._qmp_timer = qmp_timer - self._name = name or f"qemu-{os.getpid()}-{id(self):02x}" + self._name = name or f"{os.getpid()}{id(self):02x}" self._temp_dir: Optional[str] = None self._base_temp_dir = base_temp_dir self._sock_dir = sock_dir @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ def __init__(self, self._monitor_address = monitor_address else: self._monitor_address = os.path.join( - self.sock_dir, f"{self._name}-monitor.sock" + self.sock_dir, f"{self._name}.sock" ) self._console_log_path = console_log -- 2.37.0