Re: Porting SPICE to Xen

[David <admin@dmarkey.com>]

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Yea QXL is going into mainstream Xorg I think, seen a release announcement a
few days ago.


Also:


Simon Horman writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] Qemu version for upcoming Xen 4.0
release?"):
>> An idea from left-field, but is there any chance of merging qemu-xen
>> into qemu?

>We're planning to do this, hopefully into qemu 0.13 which is planned
>for the middle of this year


This could be interesting if SPICE makes its way into QEMU upstream also.

2010/1/11 Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@eu.citrix.com>

> 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
>

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