[Spice-devel] Vdagent not working on xen linux hvm DomUs

[Wei Liu]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 04:11:52PM +0100, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
[...]
> I saw a draft of virtio disk/net implementation for xen here:
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Virtio_On_Xen
> 
> There are 2 kernel patch to support virtio on pv domUs:
> http://downloads.xen.org/Wiki/VirtioOnXen/linux-01-virtio-xenbus.patch
> http://downloads.xen.org/Wiki/VirtioOnXen/linux-02-virtio-ring.patch
> 

Do not use these patches, they were experimental.

> What about virtio on hvm linux? Maybe
> From wiki it seems virtio kernel patches only needed for pv domUs.
> Could be these patches needed to have virtio fully working also for
> hvm domUs?
> 

Virtio for HVM guests should work out of the box. You probably need to
prevent kernel from unplugging emulated devices.

Wei.