Re: Unable to get QXL vga working

[ZhouPeng <zpengxen@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Stefano Stabellini
<stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 May 2012, ZhouPeng wrote:
>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Stefano Stabellini
>> <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 3 May 2012, ZhouPeng wrote:
>> >> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Fantu <fantonifabio@tiscali.it> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Zhou Peng wrote
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Hi Fantu,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Thanks for your response.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> xl doesn't support qxl-related option at the moment.
>> >> >> I will test upstream-qemu-xen these days, and if it works well
>> >> >> with qxl device, I will be glad to add qxl support to xl.
>> >> >>
>> >> > Hello, any news about this?
>> >> > Thanks in advance
>> >>
>> >> It seems you are using the upstream-qemu.
>> >> There are some special patches for upstream-qemu-xen(I don't track if all the
>> >> patches have been accepted by qemu)
>> >>
>> >> The git repos for upstream-qemu-xen:
>> >>   Stefano Stabellini's tree:
>> >> git://xenbits.xen.org/people/sstabellini/qemu-dm.git
>> >>   Anthony's tree: git://xenbits.xen.org/people/aperard/qemu-dm.git
>> >>
>> >> I am watching upstream-qemu-xen's progress too, but I have not tracked
>> >> it for months.
>> >
>> > That is my personal tree. Now upstream QEMU is integrated in
>> > xen-unstable, so the tree that should be used
>> > is: http://xenbits.xen.org/git-http/qemu-upstream-unstable.git
>> >
>> >
>> >> I was plan to test the latest upstream-qemu-xen and response to you,
>> >> but I encounter a problem when preparing the environment using the upstream xen:
>> >>   # xl list
>> >>   libxl: error: libxl.c:506:libxl_list_domain: geting domain info
>> >> list: Operation not permitted
>> >>   libxl_domain_infolist failed.
>> >
>> > This looks like a basic setup issue.
>> >
>> >
>> >> So I suggest you  to have a try of upstream-qemu-xen if not yet.
>> >> In my test many months ago, it didn't support graphic, and spice was tested
>> >> with linux-hvm disabling graphic.
>> >
>> > What do you mean by "disabling graphic"? Do you mean disabling the vga
>> > card?
>> No, not disable the vga card.
>> But booting in Text mode.
>
> Then you are manually starting X11 with the spice driver?
Always in text mode.
Never start X11.
Using stdard vga but not qxl-vga.
-- 
Zhou Peng