Re: [Qemu-arm] Qemu qxl support on arm64 issue

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Yaguang Tang <heut2008@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to make openstack work on arm64, when setting spice for VM,
> qemu complains that qxl is not available, my env:
>
> qemu 2.8 compiled with the following:
>
> ./configure --enable-spice --enable-kvm --target-list=aarch64-softmmu
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>         LANGUAGE = (unset),
>         LC_ALL = (unset),
>         LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
>     are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> Install prefix    /usr/local
> BIOS directory    /usr/local/share/qemu
> binary directory  /usr/local/bin
> library directory /usr/local/lib
> module directory  /usr/local/lib/qemu
> libexec directory /usr/local/libexec
> include directory /usr/local/include
> config directory  /usr/local/etc
> local state directory   /usr/local/var
> Manual directory  /usr/local/share/man
> ELF interp prefix /usr/gnemul/qemu-%M
> Source path       /home/etos/git/qemu
> C compiler        cc
> Host C compiler   cc
> C++ compiler      c++
> Objective-C compiler cc
> ARFLAGS           rv
> CFLAGS            -O2 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g
> QEMU_CFLAGS       -I/usr/include/pixman-1   -Werror
> -DHAS_LIBSSH2_SFTP_FSYNC -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
> -I/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include   -D_GNU_SOURCE
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -Wstrict-prototypes
> -Wredundant-decls -Wall -Wundef -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes
> -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fwrapv  -Wendif-labels
> -Wno-missing-include-dirs -Wempty-body -Wnested-externs -Wformat-security
> -Wformat-y2k -Winit-self -Wignored-qualifiers -Wold-style-declaration
> -Wold-style-definition -Wtype-limits -fstack-protector-strong
>  -I/usr/include/p11-kit-1     -I/usr/include/libpng12  -pthread
> -I/usr/local/include/spice-server -I/usr/local/include/spice-1
> -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include
> -I/usr/include/pixman-1  -I/usr/include/libusb-1.0
> LDFLAGS           -Wl,--warn-common -g
> make              make
> install           install
> python            python -B
> smbd              /usr/sbin/smbd
> module support    no
> host CPU          aarch64
> host big endian   no
> target list       aarch64-softmmu
> tcg debug enabled no
> gprof enabled     no
> sparse enabled    no
> strip binaries    yes
> profiler          no
> static build      no
> pixman            system
> SDL support       yes (1.2.15)
> GTK support       no
> GTK GL support    no
> VTE support       no
> TLS priority      NORMAL
> GNUTLS support    yes
> GNUTLS rnd        yes
> libgcrypt         no
> libgcrypt kdf     no
> nettle            yes (3.3)
> nettle kdf        yes
> libtasn1          yes
> curses support    no
> virgl support     yes
> curl support      yes
> mingw32 support   no
> Audio drivers     oss
> Block whitelist (rw)
> Block whitelist (ro)
> VirtFS support    yes
> VNC support       yes
> VNC SASL support  yes
> VNC JPEG support  yes
> VNC PNG support   yes
> xen support       no
> brlapi support    yes
> bluez  support    yes
> Documentation     yes
> PIE               no
> vde support       yes
> netmap support    no
> Linux AIO support yes
> ATTR/XATTR support yes
> Install blobs     yes
> KVM support       yes
> HAX support       no
> RDMA support      no
> TCG interpreter   no
> fdt support       yes
> preadv support    yes
> fdatasync         yes
> madvise           yes
> posix_madvise     yes
> libcap-ng support yes
> vhost-net support yes
> vhost-scsi support yes
> vhost-vsock support yes
> Trace backends    log
> spice support     yes (0.12.13/0.13.3.311-1b9c-dirty)
> rbd support       yes
> xfsctl support    yes
> smartcard support no
> libusb            yes
> usb net redir     yes
> OpenGL support    no
> OpenGL dmabufs    no
> libiscsi support  yes
> libnfs support    no
> build guest agent yes
> QGA VSS support   no
> QGA w32 disk info no
> QGA MSI support   no
> seccomp support   yes
> coroutine backend ucontext
> coroutine pool    yes
> debug stack usage no
> GlusterFS support no
> gcov              gcov
> gcov enabled      no
> TPM support       yes
> libssh2 support   yes
> TPM passthrough   no
> QOM debugging     yes
> lzo support       yes
> snappy support    no
> bzip2 support     no
> NUMA host support no
> tcmalloc support  no
> jemalloc support  no
> avx2 optimization no
> replication support yes
> VxHS block device no
>
> start a vm as follow:
>
> qemu-system-aarch64 --enable-kvm --nographic -machine virt --kernel
> cirros-d161201-aarch64-vmlinuz --initrd cirros-d161201-aarch64-initrd
> --spice port=5900,disable-ticketing -cpu host -vga qxl
>
> Is there anything I am missing or wrong ?

What error does it give?

Regardless I think -vga is a legacy option for x86. If you want a display
adaptor for an ARM vm machine you'll need to instantiate virtio-gpu
device and then connect it to your spice display.

--
Alex Bennée