Commit cf60ccc330 ("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 882084a04a ("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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