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

[bing]

On 03/11/2010 10:29 AM, Izik Eidus wrote:
> On 03/03/2010 01:12 AM, bing wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Considering the demand for latest qemu features that we see from users,
> We will push a new qemu version for spice soon - And that ofcorse only 
> untill
> when we will merge all this stuff to qemu, and then we won`t have all 
> the issues !
>
> Thanks.
>

That will be great!


>
>>
>> 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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