[Spice-devel] Running SPICE on PPC64

[Denis Kirjanov]

On 3/18/15, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yesh, it's x86_64 box

> 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
>


-- 
Regards,
Denis