[Spice-devel] Running SPICE on PPC64

[Denis Kirjanov]

On 3/18/15, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Denis,
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:31:25PM +0300, Denis Kirjanov wrote:
>> I've found in the mailing list that you were running SPICE on ppc
>> system. I'm trying to connect to the qemu ppc64 (version 2.2.1 with
>> patch which enables QXL device) virtual machine with spice enabled
>> (and your endianess patches applied, version 0.12.5) and see nothing
>> on output...
>
> By ppc64, I assume we are talking about big endian ppc64?

Right, big ending guest on power8 be host.

> When I wrote these patches, I did not get farther than debugging
> qemu-system-ppc64 -spice port=5900
> No disk image, no QXL, ... partly because I did not have much time to
> spend on debugging all of this, partly because I could not figure out
> how to get it to boot off an ISO. Someone else on the mailing list
> is trying to get things to run on SPARC which is big-endian too, but
> I haven't seen any patches yet.
> So big endian is still very much unsupported in SPICE unfortunately. I'd
> be happy to help if you want to investigate this further, and fix what
> needs fixing. I'd start by experimenting without a QXL device if
> possible.
>

Unfortunately, I see only the black scree with the simplest command line:

[root at power ~]# SPICE_LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG=5 /usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc64
-spice port=5908,disable-ticketing
main_channel_link: add main channel client
main_channel_handle_parsed: net test: latency 304.899000 ms, bitrate
1023488255 bps (976.074462 Mbps)


[root at rhtest ~]# remote-viewer --spice-debug --spice-disable-audio
spice://10.10.0.30?port=5908
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-session.c:172 New session
(compiled from package spice-gtk 0.20)
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-session.c:176 Supported
channels: main, display, inputs, cursor, playback, record, smartcard,
usbredir
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: usb-device-manager.c:856 device
added 0xe78310
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: usb-device-manager.c:856 device
added 0xe78420
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: usb-device-manager.c:856 device
added 0xe77b50
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: usb-device-manager.c:856 device
added 0xe78110
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-session.c:1623 session:
disconnecting 0
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-channel.c:127 main-1:0:
spice_channel_constructed
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-session.c:1930 main-1:0: new
main channel, switching
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-gtk-session.c:809 Changing
main channel from (nil) to 0xe956f0
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-channel.c:2385 main-1:0:
Open coroutine starting 0xe956f0
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-channel.c:2231 main-1:0:
Started background coroutine 0xe95780
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-session.c:1743 connecting
0x7f2babfc59c0...
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-session.c:1812 open host
10.10.0.30:5908
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-session.c:1729 connect ready
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-channel.c:1163 main-1:0:
channel type 1 id 0 num common caps 1 num caps 1
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-channel.c:1194 main-1:0:
Peer version: 2:2
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-channel.c:1691 main-1:0:
spice_channel_recv_link_msg: 2 caps
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-channel.c:1701 main-1:0: got
common caps 0:0xB
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-channel.c:1707 main-1:0: got
channel caps 0:0x9
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-channel.c:2619 test cap 0 in 0xB: yes
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-channel.c:2619 test cap 2 in 0xB: no
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-channel.c:2619 test cap 1 in 0xB: yes
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-channel.c:2619 test cap 3 in 0xB: yes
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-channel.c:1736 main-1:0: use
mini header: 1
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-channel.c:1100 main-1:0:
channel up, state 2
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-session.c:2019 set mm time: 2431229369
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: spice-session.c:2022
spice_session_set_mm_time: mm-time-reset, old 743596488, new
2431229369
(remote-viewer:8211): GSpice-DEBUG: channel-main.c:1494 server uuid:
00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000


> Christophe
>


-- 
Regards,
Denis