[Spice-devel] Port spice to Xen

[Zhou Peng]

2011/4/7 Alon Levy <alevy at redhat.com>

> 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
>
  svn

> 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?
>
  We failed in qxl device initialization. The current qemu of spice is very
different with Xen's which is the early version 0.10.2. So the qxl_init need
to be modified. This work is mainly related with qemu not xen.

> 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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>


-- 
Zhou Peng
Operating System Technology Group
Institute of Software, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS)
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