From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent Hanquez Subject: Re: Porting SPICE to Xen Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:27:21 +0000 Message-ID: <4B4B0B19.1010505@eu.citrix.com> References: <6894a6470912280850v5b7ad285l6d90f213ef18da0b@mail.gmail.com> <6b7f6eb1001062033v3f80ae52t5d8b590e9d7819cc@mail.gmail.com> <4B45BF13.1070901@eu.citrix.com> <20100107111620.GG16032@redhat.com> <6894a6471001071646g558957d4u43e1c066c34e63b3@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <6894a6471001071646g558957d4u43e1c066c34e63b3@mail.gmail.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: "admin@dmarkey.com" Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , "Daniel P. Berrange" , Thiago Camargo Martins Cordeiro , Stefano Stabellini List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org 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 -- Vincent