Re: Porting spice to xen

[ZhouPeng <zpengxen@gmail.com>]

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2011/4/7 Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>

> On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, ZhouPeng wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We have tried to port spice to Xen (Xen 4.0.1, Dom0 kernel 2.6.18).
> > The current porting allows basic spice run for xen-fv.
> >
> > Now We are trying to port the qxl component, but it's difficult
> > because of the big difference between xen-qemu and upstream qemu.
> > If you enable the qxl device in our current porting(do it by setting
> > 'qxl=1' in xm config file), you are most likely to get a mess screen.
> > :(
> >
> > So any help in qxl porting will be much appreciated.
> >
> > Our work is shared here: http://code.google.com/p/spice4xen/
> >
> > It's not be a good way to port spice to xen-qemu because of tremendous
> > difference. But before the Xen with upstream-qemu supported has been
> > released and runs stable, it may be a choice.
>
> I think that porting spice and qxl to the current qemu-xen tree is not
> worth the effort, considering that we are very close to having xen
> support in upstream qemu right now.
>

  Good news. How long will it be released?

Also if you don't want to wait for xen support to go upstream in qemu
> you can checkout Anthony Perard's git qemu branch and work directly on
> it:
>
> git://xenbits.xen.org/people/aperard/qemu-dm.git qemu-dm-v12
>

-- 
Zhou Peng
Operating System Technology Group
Institute of Software, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS)
<ailvpeng25@gmail.com>

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