Re: [Xen-devel] [TestDay] F20 Xen 4.4 RC3 Spice support

[Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@xxxxxxx>]

Il 11/02/2014 10:56, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto:
> Il 10/02/2014 18:05, George Dunlap ha scritto:
> > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@xxxxxxx> 
> > wrote:
> > > Il 04/02/2014 16:41, Eric Houby ha scritto:
> > >
> > > > Xen list,
> > > >
> > > > I am trying to boot a F20 guest and connect using Spice but have run
> > > > into an issue.
> > > >
> > > > My VM config file includes:
> > > > spice = 1
> > > > spicehost='0.0.0.0'
> > > > spiceport=6001
> > > > spicedisable_ticketing=1
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Is Spice supported with qemu-xen-traditional?
> > > No, only with upstream qemu and if compile xen and qemu from source 
> > > you also
> > > enable spice support on qemu build, for example on my xen build 
> > > tests I add:
> > > tools/Makefile
> > > @@ -201,6 +201,8 @@ subdir-all-qemu-xen-dir: qemu-xen-dir-find
> > >           --datadir=$(SHAREDIR)/qemu-xen \
> > >           --localstatedir=/var \
> > >           --disable-kvm \
> > > +        --enable-spice \
> > > +        --enable-usb-redir \
> > >           --disable-docs \
> > >           --disable-guest-agent \
> > >           --python=$(PYTHON) \
> > >
> > > If you use upstream qemu from distribution package probably have 
> > > already
> > > spice build-in, for example, on debian I've already tested and working.
> > It might be nice at some point to have this integrated into the
> > top-level configure, possibly enabled by default (gated on the
> > appropriate development libraries being enabled).
> >
> >   -George

> I already did a patch to do it time ago in three different ways but 
> all rejected :(
> A one reason was the lack of needed libraries on many distros versions 
> used with xen.
> Now all newer versions have the needed spice and usbredir libraries 
> included, so if you would like reconsider the path please point me in 
> the right direction in order to have this done correctly.
> The three way I did were:
> - enabled by default
> - Added optional build configs for qemu upstream (debug part now no 
> more needed because already present) 
> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-03/msg00506.html
> - Autoconf: add variable for pass arbitrary options to qemu upstream 
> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-03/msg01677.html
> Probably there are also newer versions of these patches that I not 
> found anymore.
> Thanks for any reply.
Ping.
Added also Ian Campbell and Ian Jackson to cc, which have been take part 
to the discussion about 2 years ago.
Thanks for any reply.


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