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[Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] tools/libxl: Improve videoram setting



tools/libxl: Improve videoram setting

- If videoram setting is less than 8 mb shows error.
- Added videoram setting for qemu upstream with cirrus (added in qemu 1.3).
- Updated xl.cfg man.

Signed-off-by: Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5    |   14 +++++---------
 tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c   |    6 ++++++
 tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c |   10 ++++++++--
 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5 b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5
index caba162..9c5cdcd 100644
--- a/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5
+++ b/docs/man/xl.cfg.pod.5
@@ -974,19 +974,15 @@ in the B<VFB_SPEC_STRING> for configuring virtual frame buffer devices

 Sets the amount of RAM which the emulated video card will contain,
 which in turn limits the resolutions and bit depths which will be
-available. This option is only available when using the B<stdvga>
-option (see below).
+available.
 The default amount of video ram for stdvga is 8MB which is sufficient
-for e.g. 1600x1200 at 32bpp.
+for e.g. 1600x1200 at 32bpp and videoram option is currently working
+only when using the qemu-xen-traditional device-model.

 When using the emulated Cirrus graphics card (B<stdvga=0>)
 the amount of video ram is fixed at 4MB which is sufficient
-for 1024x768 at 32 bpp.
-
-videoram option is currently only available when using the
-qemu-xen-traditional device-model. Upstream qemu-xen device-model
-currently does not support changing the amount of video memory for the
-emulated graphics device.
+for 1024x768 at 32 bpp and videoram option is currently working
+only when using the upstream qemu-xen device-model.

 =item B<stdvga=BOOLEAN>

diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c b/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c
index c036dc1..d719130 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c
@@ -430,6 +430,12 @@ static char ** libxl__build_device_model_args_new(libxl__gc *gc,
             break;
         case LIBXL_VGA_INTERFACE_TYPE_CIRRUS:
             flexarray_vappend(dm_args, "-vga", "cirrus", NULL);
+            if (b_info->video_memkb) {
+                flexarray_vappend(dm_args, "-global",
+                libxl__sprintf(gc, "vga.vram_size_mb=%d",
+                libxl__sizekb_to_mb(b_info->video_memkb)),
+                NULL);
+            }
             break;
         }

diff --git a/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c b/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c
index e964bf1..6e11c8d 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c
@@ -831,8 +831,14 @@ static void parse_config_data(const char *config_source,

     xlu_cfg_get_defbool(config, "localtime", &b_info->localtime, 0);

-    if (!xlu_cfg_get_long (config, "videoram", &l, 0))
-        b_info->video_memkb = l * 1024;
+    if (!xlu_cfg_get_long (config, "videoram", &l, 0)){
+        if ( l < 8 ){
+            fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: videoram must be at least 8 mb\n");
+            exit (1);
+        } else {
+            b_info->video_memkb = l * 1024;
+        }
+    }

     switch(b_info->type) {
     case LIBXL_DOMAIN_TYPE_HVM:
--
1.7.9.5

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