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

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

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 03:26:34PM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [mailto:konrad.wilk@oracle.com]
> > Sent: 14 February 2017 15:16
> > To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>
> > Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] Make demu.git compiler under Xen 4.7 (and later)
> > 
> > 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!
> > 
> 
> Glad you find it useful :-)
> 
> > By 'adopted' you mean being built as part of xen.git (like minios.git?) - and
> > all of those requirements?
> > 
> 
> Something like that, then it can be incorporated as an option into the xen build and we can make sure any dependency issues like this are caught in future.
> 
> I guess I'd probably make the 'console' branch master in a more official repo... I could even look at adding the necessary tooling into libxl to kick it off too :-)

Oooh, and what kind of bribe^H^H^H^H incentive should I send your way?

> 
>   Paul
> 
> > >
> > > 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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