[Spice-devel] Port spice to Xen

[Alon Levy]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 06:21:42PM +0800, Zhou Peng wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> We have tried to port spice to Xen (Xen 4.0.1, Dom0 kernel 2.6.18).
> The current porting allows basic spice run for xen-fv.
> 
> Now We are trying to port the qxl component, but it's difficult
> because of the big difference between xen-qemu and upstream qemu.
> If you enable the qxl device in our current porting(do it by setting
> 'qxl=1' in xm config file), you are most likely to get a mess screen.
> :(
> 
> So any help in qxl porting will be much appreciated.
> 
> Our work is shared here: http://code.google.com/p/spice4xen/

Man, svn? I was going to take a look up to this point :P

I have no experience in Xen (installed it once like 6 years ago), so I'm
not sure I can help, but maybe if you try to ask something more specific?

Alon

> 
> It's not be a good way to port spice to xen-qemu because of tremendous
> difference. But before the Xen with upstream-qemu supported has been
> released and runs stable, it may be a choice.
> 
> Best,
> --
> Zhou Peng
> Operating System Technology Group
> Institute of Software, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS)

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