Re: [TestDay] F20 Xen 4.4 RC3 Spice support

[Eric Houby <ehouby@yahoo.com>]

On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 09:06 +0100, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> Wednesday, February 5, 2014, 5:00:08 AM, you wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 17:01 +0100, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
> >> Il 04/02/2014 16:41, Eric Houby ha scritto:
> >> > Xen list,
> >> >
> >> > I am trying to boot a F20 guest and connect using Spice but have run
> >> > into an issue.
> >> >
> >> > My VM config file includes:
> >> > spice = 1
> >> > spicehost='0.0.0.0'
> >> > spiceport=6001
> >> > spicedisable_ticketing=1
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Is Spice supported with qemu-xen-traditional?
> >> 
> >> No, only with upstream qemu and if compile xen and qemu from source you 
> >> also enable spice support on qemu build, for example on my xen build 
> >> tests I add:
> >> 
> >> tools/Makefile
> >> @@ -201,6 +201,8 @@ subdir-all-qemu-xen-dir: qemu-xen-dir-find
> >>           --datadir=$(SHAREDIR)/qemu-xen \
> >>           --localstatedir=/var \
> >>           --disable-kvm \
> >> +        --enable-spice \
> >> +        --enable-usb-redir \
> >>           --disable-docs \
> >>           --disable-guest-agent \
> >>           --python=$(PYTHON) \
> >> 
> >> If you use upstream qemu from distribution package probably have already 
> >> spice build-in, for example, on debian I've already tested and working.
> >> 
> 
> > It is my understanding that the qemu package in F20 does not support xen
> > so I compiled xen from source per the RC3 Test Day instructions and the
> > instructions here:
> 
> > http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Compiling_Xen_From_Source
> 
> > After adding --enable-spice and --enable-usb-redir to tools/Makefile I
> > see the following error when I make xen:
> 
> > ERROR: User requested feature spice
> >        configure was not able to find it
> 
> Do you have the libspice-dev packages installed for your distro ?
> 

I do now. I also have the usbredir-devel package. 

Thanks for the help.