9p: changed 9pfs binary compilation to installation from COPR repo

Removed the container-compilation process and changed it to simple
installation from a custom COPR repository that contains the binary.

Author: redbeam

9pfs/Dockerfile

@@ -426,18 +426,3 @@ function copy_systemd_units() {
 
     ${SSH} core@${VM_IP} -- 'rm -rf /home/core/systemd-units /home/core/systemd-scripts'
 }
-
-function compile_and_extract_9pfs() {
-    ${SCP} -r 9pfs core@${VM_IP}:/home/core/
-    ${SSH} core@${VM_IP} 'sudo bash -e -x -s' <<EOF
-        cd 9pfs
-        podman build -t 9pfs-builder .
-        podman create --name extract-temp 9pfs-builder
-        podman cp extract-temp:/src/9pfs/9pfs ./9pfs
-        podman rm extract-temp
-        sudo cp 9pfs /usr/local/bin
-        cd ..
-        rm -rf 9pfs
-        podman rmi 9pfs-builder:latest registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9:9.5
-EOF
-}

createdisk-library.sh

@@ -162,6 +162,13 @@ EOF
    ADDITIONAL_PACKAGES+=" qemu-user-static-x86"
 fi
 
+# install 9pfs binary from COPR repo so that it can be used to
+# set up 9p file sharing on Windows
+if [ "${SNC_GENERATE_WINDOWS_BUNDLE}" != "0" ]; then
+    sudo dnf -y copr enable mskvarla/9pfs
+    ADDITIONAL_PACKAGES+=" 9pfs"
+fi
+
 # Beyond this point, packages added to the ADDITIONAL_PACKAGES variable won’t be installed in the guest
 install_additional_packages ${VM_IP}
 copy_systemd_units
@@ -202,12 +209,6 @@ ${SSH} core@${VM_IP} -- 'sudo sed -i "s/^preserve_hostname: false$/preserve_host
 # Cleanup cloud-init config
 ${SSH} core@${VM_IP} -- "sudo cloud-init clean --logs"
 
-if [ "${ARCH}" == "x86_64" ] && [ "${SNC_GENERATE_WINDOWS_BUNDLE}" != "0" ]; then
-    # compile 9pfs binary using UBI image and extract the binary
-    # so that it can be used to set up a 9p filesystem on Windows
-    compile_and_extract_9pfs
-fi
-
 # Shutdown the VM
 shutdown_vm ${VM_NAME}