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

[George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

I think you'll need to rebase and re-post those patches if want us to
discuss them after 2 years.

 -George

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