Re: [PATCH v1] Make demu.git compiler under Xen 4.7 (and later)

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [mailto:konrad.wilk@oracle.com]
> Sent: 14 February 2017 15:16
> To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>
> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] Make demu.git compiler under Xen 4.7 (and later)
> 
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 08:58:42AM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [mailto:konrad.wilk@oracle.com]
> > > Sent: 10 February 2017 21:52
> > > To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>; xen-
> devel@lists.xenproject.org
> > > Subject: [PATCH v1] Make demu.git compiler under Xen 4.7 (and later)
> > >
> > > Hey!
> > >
> > > This patch lets me compile this emulator under Xen 4.7.
> > >
> > > It probably can be done better (#ifdef magic?) but for right
> > > now this gets me past the compile errors.
> > >
> > > BTW, are there any other outstanding patches against this tree?
> > >
> >
> > This is still my private project, although if it's generally useful then maybe it
> can be adopted as part of the Xen project?
> 
> It is a nice project!
> 

Glad you find it useful :-)

> By 'adopted' you mean being built as part of xen.git (like minios.git?) - and
> all of those requirements?
> 

Something like that, then it can be incorporated as an option into the xen build and we can make sure any dependency issues like this are caught in future.

I guess I'd probably make the 'console' branch master in a more official repo... I could even look at adding the necessary tooling into libxl to kick it off too :-)

  Paul

> >
> > For the benefit of the list, there are two branches in
> http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/pauldu/demu.git
> >
> > - The 'master' branch is a very basic standalone device emulator. It serves
> as boilerplate for emulation of a single PCI device.
> >
> > - The 'console' branch is a (PS/2) Keyboard-VGA-Mouse emulator using
> libVNCServer which can potentially be used with an HVM guest with PV
> network and storage drivers, thus removing the need to use QEMU. demu is
> a small and constrained piece of code and thus presents a much smaller
> attack surface. The original intention was also to run it in a 'console service
> domain' to further contain damage it was successfully attacked.
> >
> > It's likely that I will patch the code further once my current work on
> libxendevicemodel is done (following acceptance of my recent privcmd
> patches).
> 
> <nods>
> >
> >   Cheers,
> >
> >     Paul
> >
> > >
> > >  demu.c | 7 ++++++-
> > >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (1):
> > >       Make it compiler under Xen 4.7.
> >

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