Re: [PATCH v1] Make demu.git compiler under Xen 4.7 (and later)

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 08:58:42AM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [mailto:konrad.wilk@oracle.com]
> > Sent: 10 February 2017 21:52
> > To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>; xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
> > Subject: [PATCH v1] Make demu.git compiler under Xen 4.7 (and later)
> > 
> > Hey!
> > 
> > This patch lets me compile this emulator under Xen 4.7.
> > 
> > It probably can be done better (#ifdef magic?) but for right
> > now this gets me past the compile errors.
> > 
> > BTW, are there any other outstanding patches against this tree?
> > 
> 
> This is still my private project, although if it's generally useful then maybe it can be adopted as part of the Xen project?

It is a nice project!

By 'adopted' you mean being built as part of xen.git (like minios.git?) - and
all of those requirements?

> 
> For the benefit of the list, there are two branches in http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/pauldu/demu.git
> 
> - The 'master' branch is a very basic standalone device emulator. It serves as boilerplate for emulation of a single PCI device.
> 
> - The 'console' branch is a (PS/2) Keyboard-VGA-Mouse emulator using libVNCServer which can potentially be used with an HVM guest with PV network and storage drivers, thus removing the need to use QEMU. demu is a small and constrained piece of code and thus presents a much smaller attack surface. The original intention was also to run it in a 'console service domain' to further contain damage it was successfully attacked.
> 
> It's likely that I will patch the code further once my current work on libxendevicemodel is done (following acceptance of my recent privcmd patches).

<nods>
> 
>   Cheers,
> 
>     Paul
> 
> > 
> >  demu.c | 7 ++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (1):
> >       Make it compiler under Xen 4.7.
> 

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