From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?= Subject: Re: Bug: /proc/xen Doesn't Mount Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 09:27:14 +0300 Message-ID: <20140618062713.GX18930@reaktio.net> References: <1403019899.9071.129790401.064767D8@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1403023042.23579.129811105.4096DD9B@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20140617165656.GA11406@laptop.dumpdata.com> <1403024428.25771.42.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> <1403026449.6622.129827501.2CBC5451@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20140617202540.GV18930@reaktio.net> <1403049545.3010.129958137.752BF981@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1403049545.3010.129958137.752BF981@webmail.messagingengine.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: merc1984@f-m.fm Cc: Xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 04:59:05PM -0700, merc1984@f-m.fm wrote: > = > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014, at 13:25, Pasi K=E4rkk=E4inen wrote: > = > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:34:09AM -0700, [1]merc1984@f-m.fm wrote: > = > = > For example, the VGA problem I can only infer, as always; After= a > week of > struggle, I heard that qemu-xen-traditional was "removed from De= bian > a > long time ago". Yet VGA forwarding doesn't work with qemu-xen, = as I > knew > it hadn't supported VGA forwarding in the past. I'm guessing and > hoping > that Xen-4.4.0 qemu-xen from source -will- support VGA forwarding > but I > have no proof of that since I've never had my questions answered. > So I > embarked on this switch from Debian packages (4.3) to compiling > source > (4.4) and hope that this will give VGA forwarding. > = > = > = > Note that removal of xen qemu-traditional from Debian is purely Debi= an's > decision. > = > = > No doubt. But very few -know- that traditional does not ship with > Debian. Hell, very few know that traditional was needed for VGA > passthrough. And the irc channel has little but questions. > = I can understand you're frustrated. Hopefully you can contribute to the wik= i/docs when you get this working? = IRC channel does have action, but now always, obviously. And it depends on = your timezone aswell.. > = > = > Other distros ship qemu-traditional. > = > = > Are you saying that qemu-xen 4.4 does not have VGA passthru support? > Meaning that I should use qemu-xen-traditional? > = qemu-upstream does not (yet) have support for VGA/GPU passthru, = so qemu-upstream in Xen 4.4 does not have VGA/GPU passthru support. (Except you can passthru for example some AMD GPUs as secondary GPUs withou= t the need for special VGA passthru support). VGA/GPU passthru for upstream qemu is currently being developed/upstreamed = by Intel developers, you can see/find the patches on xen-devel archives. It has been discussed r= ecently (last week or so). > I've just discovered that xen-tools does not ship with the 4.4 source > package. I'm missing xen-create-image and friends. This isn't menion= ed > anywhere. Maybe this is because they're not promulgated by the Xen > project? Wonder what else I'm missing. My two front teef? > xen-tools is a thirdparty package. It has never been part of Xen hypervisor. > Sure these are User questions. But they'll be asked over and over in > -users until someone has time to work on docs. I ask here for the goo= d of > Xen. Otherwise you'll never know where the problems are. > Yep. Please help improving the docs! -- Pasi