[Spice-devel] Information on VT-D support for qemu-spice

[bing]

Hi,

I am also interested on how to enable VT-d in qemu-spice. I am currently 
use Xen to do that but the spice gui is far more better than the vnc.

regards

bing



On 03/03/2010 05:28 AM, Damien Bruley wrote:
> Hi ,
> Thanks for your feedback.
> I have several other question regarding Spice :
> - Is it possible to use USB plug and play ? I use option : -usbdevice 
> tablet but it doesn't work for me
> - Does qemu-spice support snapshots ? if si, how to use it ?
> - Can you tell me how to enable VT-D if it is disable on qemu-spice
> - Is there an option to support SMP ?
>
> regards
>
> Izik Eidus a écrit :
>> On 03/01/2010 06:35 PM, Damien Bruley wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm new to this mailing list, i've tested qemu-spice and i'm amaized 
>>> of the overall performance.
>>> In fact, I would like to use that solution as Client Hypervisor and 
>>> develop an administration console to easily deploy VM to end user 
>>> devices.
>>>
>>> As Spice is based on KVM and QEMU I would like to know if it is 
>>> technicaly possible to assign VT-D (IOMMU) devices to KVM ?
>>> I have lots of laptops all with VT-D technologies enable (dmesg | 
>>> grep -e DMAR -e IOMMU report fine)
>>>
>>> So my question is :
>>> - I know QEMU for SPICE is an old version of QEMU but is it possible 
>>> to assign VT-D ? All my tests did not succeed.
>>
>>
>> I think the VT-D code is disabled for the qemu-spice (at least as far 
>> as i remember)
>>
>>> - Is it possible to use qemu-system with spice feature instead of 
>>> qemu-spice ?
>>
>>
>> Yea there is on going effort to merge spice support into qemu, but it 
>> will take some time
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot for your help !
>>>
>>> Damien
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>>
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