[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-win-qxl] spice: windows qxl drivers: support x64 build

[Alon Levy]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:27:39AM -0700, The Ha wrote:
> Hi Arnon
> Alon wrote:
> >Arnon (Arnon Gilboa, on the list) is building an updated driver,
> >maybe that will help ?
> Anything will help.
> Just tell me where I can Git it  to build it myself and upload for others.
> Save you guy sometimes.
> 
> >we do have drivers for windows for the new server, so I don't see
> >the problem.
> If you mean "new server" = spice 0.8 then RHEL 6 vdi will have issue.

No, by new I mean 0.6. There are no major changes that break the driver
between 0.6 and 0.8.

Rereading the bottom part (well, actually first time reading, sorry) I
think rebuilding will work, and if you are using RHEL 6 you have to,
like you said RHEL 6 has a too old spice server (0.4.2).

> 
> At the bottom of this page, I susgested that I should:
> Remove old spice server, spice dependency and maybe qemu-kvm if
> spice 0.8 requires a new set of dependency
> 
> Do you know for sure that I only need to rebuild spice server 0.8 ?
> The devil is in detail when I start compiling 0.8 and start seeing
> "Not found, requires headers x.y.z , Missing libs version blah...".
> So, shall I commit rebuild spice server ? or wait for your new driver patch ?
> 
> Thanks
> The Ha
> 
> On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, The Ha wrote:
> 
> >>>Hi Alon
> >>>Test setup: Windows 7 64 bit guest, run on RHEL 6 KVM
> >>>Linux guests using xserver-xorg-video-qxl almost work.
> >>>YouTube flash inverted when using Windows Spice Client
> >>>but that is another thread.
> >>>
> >>>QXL drivers tested and all fail to load. It uses generic vga driver.
> >>>
> >>>* Spice-space: qxl-win32-0.6.0.zip \
> >>>qxl-win32-0.6.1.zip \
> >>>qxl_unstable.zip
> >>>
> >>>* My build: QXL spice-0.8.0 and spice-0.6.4
> >>>
> >>>Please advice.
> >>>If you think Win7 64-bit is still too early for Beta test then
> >>>I will move on with only Win.x 32-bit for our test Ugrad Labs.
> >>>
> >>Win7x64 qxl drivers should be at exactly the same state as x86.
> >>In case of any x64-only bugs, please raise a red flag.
> >>Your tests are really important for us.
> >Thanks Anon
> >I think the issue narrow down to Izik Eidus thread
> >http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2010-April/000237.html
> >If his comment is correct, then there is no hope to use anything new.
> >
> >Windows 64 bit will not work unless RHEL6 update its spice server
> >from 0.4.2-15 to whatever it would support QXL 0.6.x and above.
> >I don't know when that happen.  I guest I have to do the hard way
> >like I did for all of our Sun SPARC Solaris box.  That is setup RHEL 6
> >core OS only, build new Spice server from source, add dependecny
> >as needed, and hope it works :-)
> >
> >Please, tell me that I am wrong and I don't need to do that :-)
> >
> >Thanks
> >The Ha
> >
> >Ps. My plan is to write ALL document for SPICE Administrators.
> >So, yes, I will test them all for SPICE community.
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >
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> >
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