From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Fehlig Subject: Re: Xen 4.6 Development Update (three months reminder) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:39:30 -0600 Message-ID: <55410942.1030003@suse.com> References: <553FC0C7.50402@suse.com> <554006ED.40300@suse.com> <55402413.8070409@citrix.com> <5540B128.20608@m2r.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta3.messagelabs.com ([195.245.230.39]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1YnV2R-0007lp-M3 for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 16:40:43 +0000 In-Reply-To: <5540B128.20608@m2r.biz> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Fabio Fantoni Cc: elena.ufimtseva@oracle.com, feng.wu@intel.com, ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, oleksandr.dmytryshyn@globallogic.com, chegger@amazon.de, cyliu@suse.com, edgar.iglesias@gmail.com, chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com, parth.dixit@linaro.org, dgolomb@seas.upenn.edu, manishjaggi.oss@gmail.com, kai.huang@linux.intel.com, jtweaver@hawaii.edu, vijay.kilari@gmail.com, rcojocaru@bitdefender.com, ross.lagerwall@citrix.com, tamas.lengyel@zentific.com, Vijaya.Kumar@caviumnetworks.com, anthony.perard@citrix.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, eshelton@pobox.com, olaf@aepfle.de, ian.campbell@citrix.com, wency@cn.fujitsu.com, julien.grall@linaro.org, frediano.ziglio@huawei.com, quan.xu@intel.com, tiejun.chen@intel.com, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, vkuznets@redhat.com, andrii.tseglytskyi@globallogic.com, jgross@suse.com, talex5@gmail.com, wei.liu2@citrix.com, malcolm.crossley@citrix.com, ard.biesh List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Fabio Fantoni wrote: > Il 29/04/2015 02:21, Andrew Cooper ha scritto: >> On 28/04/15 23:17, Jim Fehlig wrote: >>> Jim Fehlig wrote: >>>> wei.liu2@citrix.com wrote: >>>>> Hi all >>>>> >>>>> We are now three months into 4.6 development window. This is an >>>>> email to keep >>>>> track of all the patch series I gathered. It is by no means >>>>> complete and / or >>>>> acurate. Feel free to reply this email with new projects or >>>>> correct my >>>>> misunderstanding. >>>> [...] >>>>> * libxl: add qxl vga interface support for upstream qemu (fair) >>>>> - Fabio Fantoni >>>> I've been working on SPICE support in the libvirt libxl driver and >>>> quickly came across the lack of support for qxl device. What is the >>>> status of this work? AFAICT, there was a v16 posted nearly a year ago >>>> with no comments >>>> >>>> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2014-05/msg03214.html >>> After playing with this more, I think the patch will need a >>> LIBXL_HAVE_QXL or similar in libxl.h. >>> >>>> I noticed this work was committed in the 4.3 dev cycle, but was >>>> reverted >>>> before the release by commit 5479961a, which describes problems with >>>> "instructions that cannot be used for MMIO". Has any progress been >>>> made >>>> on that front? Is Fabio's patch the only piece missing to support qxl >>>> devices? >>> I've tried Fabio's patch on top of fairly recent xen-unstable and don't >>> see the issues mentioned in the commit message of 5479961a. Note that I >>> only tried linux HVM guests though. > > qxl vga is working good on windows domUs except problem after > save/restore > on linux domUs instead I wasn't able to get it working > today I tried with fedora 22 (beta3) lxde live dvd (have included > latest qxl drivers available): with both stdvga and qxl mouse is > working but not visible and I not understand why, I'll try also > lubuntu 15.04. > can you tell me what dom0 and domU have you use for test please? dom0 and domU are both SLES12. Xen is fairly recent xen-unstable plus a few libxl patches. Regards, Jim