Re: Porting SPICE to Xen

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:27:21AM +0000, Vincent Hanquez wrote:
> On 01/08/2010 12:46 AM, David wrote:
> >HVM would be a good start. It would be a good way for Xen to break 
> >into the VDI space easily, unless there's something I haven't come 
> >across?
> >
> >As far as I understand, if the QXL driver isn't installed, it will 
> >fall back to standard VGA. The spice client will still be able to 
> >connect, but it just wont be accelerated.
> >
> >The spice protocol doesn't just handle graphics, but sound and USB is 
> >in the pipeline.
> >
> >The guest QXL driver is available for windows anyway, so that will be 
> >HVM only, I'm not sure about the status of the X guest driver.
> >
> 
> I just found out about that (maybe i'm just lagging), not sure the state 
> either, but at least the source code is available:
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-qxl

I think its fair to class that driver as functional, but not really
taking advantage of all the QXL has to offer, so won't show the level
of performance improvements QXL gives with the Window guest driver.
The X driver should be in Fedora soon.

Regards,
Daniel
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