Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] guest agent: qemu-ga daemon

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 07/23/2011 01:35 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
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> On 23.07.2011, at 18:49, Anthony Liguori wrote:
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>> On 07/23/2011 11:43 AM, Michael Roth wrote:
>>> On 07/23/2011 11:10 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>> On 07/23/2011 11:06 AM, Michael Roth wrote:
>>>>> On 07/23/2011 05:07 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 20.07.2011, at 22:19, Michael Roth wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is the actual guest daemon, it listens for requests over a
>>>>>>> virtio-serial/isa-serial/unix socket channel and routes them through
>>>>>>> to dispatch routines, and writes the results back to the channel in
>>>>>>> a manner similar to QMP.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A shorthand invocation:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> qemu-ga -d
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is equivalent to:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> qemu-ga -m virtio-serial -p /dev/virtio-ports/org.qemu.guest_agent.0 \
>>>>>>> -f /var/run/qemu-ga.pid -d
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Michael Roth<mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A rebase on top of current HEAD gave me the following on openSUSE 11.1
>>>>>> PPC:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> agraf@lychee:/home/agraf/release/qemu>  make
>>>>>> CC qemu-ga.o
>>>>>> qemu-ga.c:40: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘GSocket’
>>>>
>>>> GIO is fairly new. It may not be available on openSUSE.
>>>>
>>>> Mike, you probably need to do a configure test for GIO and if it's not
>>>> present, don't build qemu-ga.
>>>
>>> It should've failed the glib probe in that case. I think we might need a
>>> compile test to catch this GSocket issue.
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>> Indeed.  Alex, can you help debug this a bit?  We can tr to setup a SUSE system.
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> It's not only about SUSE vs. non-SUSE. This was 11.1 (ancient, but latest ppc release) on PowerPC.
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>> Can you confirm that gio is actually present?
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> Sure, tell me how :). I'm fairly ignorant when it comes to g* stuff.

pkg-config --modversion gio-2.0

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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