[Spice-devel] Does spice in xen-4.2.0 support QXL?

[Fabio Fantoni]

Il 22/11/2012 08:46, Qian Hu ha scritto:
> Hi, Fabio
>
> Thank you for your advice! I have successfully added the patch to 
> xen-4.2.0 and set the parameters as you said.
>
> It works and the client seems to be better than before.
>
> Still, there is a little problem that the screen is upside down when 
> the win7 started, exactly the moment the four colorful blocks appeared.
>
> After that, the client is stable and everything is OK. Have you run 
> into the same problem?
>
> huqian
>
>
> 2012/11/20 Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni at heliman.it 
> <mailto:fabio.fantoni at heliman.it>>
>
>     Il 20/11/2012 09:29, Qian Hu ha scritto:
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     I have tried your patch with xen-4.2.0, but it shows "patch
>>     unexpected ends in middle of line" at the end.
>>
>>     Is there any problem with that?
>>
>>     I can still compile xen and try to add
>>     "device_model_args=["-device","qxl-vga"]" in the config file, but
>>     it didn't work
>>
>>     with command "xl". The error message is as below, and the log
>>     says "RAMBlock "vga.vram" already registered, abort!"
>>
>>     Did I miss something?
>>
>>     Thank you!
>>
>>     ----------------------error message-------------------------
>>     Parsing config from win7.cfg
>>     xc: info: VIRTUAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
>>       Loader:  0000000000100000->000000000019bbc4
>>       TOTAL: 0000000000000000->0000000038000000
>>       ENTRY ADDRESS: 0000000000100000
>>     xc: info: PHYSICAL MEMORY ALLOCATION:
>>       4KB PAGES: 0x0000000000000200
>>       2MB PAGES: 0x00000000000001bf
>>       1GB PAGES: 0x0000000000000000
>>     libxl: error: libxl_dm.c:1217:device_model_spawn_outcome: domain
>>     2 device model: spawn failed (rc=-3)
>>     libxl: error: libxl_qmp.c:641:libxl__qmp_initialize: Connection
>>     error: Connection refused
>>     Daemon running with PID 4468
>>
>>
>>
>>     2012/11/13 Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni at heliman.it
>>     <mailto:fabio.fantoni at heliman.it>>
>>
>>             Hi, everyone!
>>
>>             I am doing research on remote connect with Xen. My host
>>             is Fedora 14 and my
>>             guest is win7.
>>
>>             I have installed spice package and now I can connect to
>>             my guest by spice
>>             client.
>>
>>             Now I want to use QXL, but I don't know if it is
>>             supported by the spice in
>>             xen-4.2.0.
>>
>>             Could anyone help me?
>>
>>             Thank you!
>>
>>             huqian
>>
>>         QXL support in xen is planned for 4.3, you can add manually
>>         the actual patch for add it, see attachment.
>>         I tried it many times, months ago was working but xorg on
>>         linux domU not started and on windows domU had blu screen
>>         refered to qxl driver, recently starting domU with spice and
>>         qxl caused qemu crash with this error on log:
>>         (/usr/sbin/xl:3463): Spice-CRITICAL **:
>>         red_memslots.c:123:get_virt: slot_id 194 too big,
>>         addr=c2c2c2c2c2c2c2c2
>>
>>         Some details on one of my latest test:
>>         http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-10/msg01820.html
>>         Already reported 2 times (on xen) but no reply, I not know if
>>         is xen, qemu and/or spice problem.
>>         Is now a year I try to have spice with qxlrunning on xen, I
>>         have done numerous tests and reports, some bugs/changes on
>>         xen and qemu have been made, but are not yet sufficient to
>>         have qxl functioning as of kvm:(
>>         If someone solve this problem can tell me how please?
>>         Thanks for any reply and sorry for bad english
>>
>>
>     "patch unexpected ends in middle of line" at the end is not a
>     problem, you can continue to build xen, about xl configuration
>     file remove device_model_args, videoram, set vnc=0, qxl=1 and
>     other spice parameters you need
>
>
I have different problem, critical with qxl and no problem except 
graphic performance without qxl.
Can you tell me if you have installer GPLPV driver and/or 
spice-guest-tools-0.2.exe and what write your actual domU configuration 
file please?
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