[Spice-devel] Running SPICE on ppc64le
Niccolò Belli
darkbasic at linuxsystems.it
Mon Sep 16 08:30:42 UTC 2019
The funny part is that I'm *not* on Big Endian, my ppc64 runs Little
Endian Fedora.
For some reason spice (and QXL apparently) don't get compiled on
ppc64le: are you suggesting that if I somehow enable it at compilation
time then it should work out of the box?
If so, why did Fedora disable it?
Niccolo'
Il 2019-09-16 09:53 Frediano Ziglio ha scritto:
>> Hi,
>> Is there any reason why Spice is not available on ppc64le?
>> I've read there are still some issues with big endian, but what's
>> wrong
>> with little endian?
>> I would really love to be able to use QXL and especially USB
>> redirection
>> on my Raptor Blackbird (Power 9).
>>
>> Bests,
>> Niccolo'
>
> SPICE does not mean QXL, you can use SPICE without QXL.
> Why QXL is not compiled for PPC I have no idea.
> Recently there were quite some compatibility patches for big endian
> machines,
> should work mostly out of the box (I have only some minor patches for
> the agent).
> Officially only x64 and x86 are supported.
>
> Frediano
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