[Spice-devel] Running SPICE on PPC64

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 01:10:42PM +0300, Denis Kirjanov wrote:
> 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:

Ah :( not very obvious what's going on from a quick look, nothing is
obviously wrong from these traces. The all-0 UUID might give a first
hint as it is a bit weird, unless the qemu_uuid indeed has that value.
Is the client little-endian or big-endian? I only tested little-endian
clients so far.

Christophe

> 
> [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
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