qt5 and virtualbox

qt5 and virtualbox

[Nicolas Dechesne]

hi there,

has anyone be able to run qt5 applications in virtualbox or qemu? if
so, what build configuration was used: xcb? eglfs?

When running a 'desktop' distro in VirtualBox we can enable adds-on to
get some support for acceleration, iirc with proper X11 video drivers.
can that be used to run Qt5 application built with OE too?

any detail/instructions publicly available which I might have missed?

thanks

nicolas

Re: qt5 and virtualbox

[Martin Jansa]

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On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:34:56AM +0100, Nicolas Dechesne wrote:
> hi there,
> 
> has anyone be able to run qt5 applications in virtualbox or qemu? if
> so, what build configuration was used: xcb? eglfs?
> 
> When running a 'desktop' distro in VirtualBox we can enable adds-on to
> get some support for acceleration, iirc with proper X11 video drivers.
> can that be used to run Qt5 application built with OE too?
> 
> any detail/instructions publicly available which I might have missed?

Check .bbappends in
https://github.com/webos-ports/meta-webos-ports

there is branch also for 5.2.0 and if you check webos-ports wiki you'll
even find VirtualBox appliance build to test it without building it yourself.

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Re: qt5 and virtualbox

[Nicolas Dechesne]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Check .bbappends in
> https://github.com/webos-ports/meta-webos-ports
>
> there is branch also for 5.2.0 and if you check webos-ports wiki you'll
> even find VirtualBox appliance build to test it without building it yourself.

i could run the appliance. this is awesome stuff. pretty much exactly
what i needed. we don't use the wayland QPA, but eglfs, but I don't
see any specific reason why this could be a problem. this stuff is
very nicely designed... a good example of what can be done with OE!

Re: qt5 and virtualbox

[Simon Busch]

On Friday 17 January 2014 11:46:54 Nicolas Dechesne wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > Check .bbappends in
> > https://github.com/webos-ports/meta-webos-ports
> > 
> > there is branch also for 5.2.0 and if you check webos-ports wiki you'll
> > even find VirtualBox appliance build to test it without building it
> > yourself.
> i could run the appliance. this is awesome stuff. pretty much exactly
> what i needed. we don't use the wayland QPA, but eglfs, but I don't
> see any specific reason why this could be a problem. this stuff is
> very nicely designed... a good example of what can be done with OE!

Thanks a lot! We're building currently three different target machines (one is 
qemux86 based and for virtualbox) from the same tree and it's working very 
well :) Every target has the same core system with just some changed runtime 
configuration. 

If you have any questions about how to configure the setup feel free to ask :)

regards,
Simon

Re: qt5 and virtualbox

[Nicolas Dechesne]

Simon,

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Simon Busch <morphis@gravedo.de> wrote:
> Thanks a lot! We're building currently three different target machines (one is
> qemux86 based and for virtualbox) from the same tree and it's working very
> well :) Every target has the same core system with just some changed runtime
> configuration.
>
> If you have any questions about how to configure the setup feel free to ask :)

so I was able to replicate a similar config with our distro and custom
layer (Qt5 apps). that works quite well, i haven't integrated any
'input' for now, but that will be the next step. and for the record, i
am using eglfs, not wayland as the backend.

i noticed that you added the vboxguestdrivers in the image, however i
think i am getting more or less the same behaviour whether i install
them or not. what do you expect vboxvideo kernel driver to bring?

cheers