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* [PATCH] libxl: Implement basic video device selection
       [not found] <5387B626.3040407@suse.com>
@ 2014-07-01  7:58 ` Stefan Bader
  2014-07-16 21:05   ` Jim Fehlig
       [not found]   ` <53C6E91E.9010500@suse.com>
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Bader @ 2014-07-01  7:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jfehlig; +Cc: libvir-list, xen-devel

being as bad with timely responses. Ok, so how about the following?

One note: it could be the STRDUP's are not strictly needed. But
to me it felt wrong to have two places refer to the same strings
(as MakeVFB copies the struct containing the pointers). If this
is not needed, then all changes now in MakeVFB probably can be
dropped (except setting the keyboard layout, maybe; which I
might miss ;)).

-Stefan


>From a95db265fa4c1a231e7c2d70baa360c6a0500e3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:01:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] libxl: Implement basic video device selection

This started as an investigation into an issue where libvirt (using the
libxl driver) and the Xen host, like an old couple, could not agree on
who is responsible for selecting the VNC port to use.

Things usually (and a bit surprisingly) did work because, just like that
old couple, they had the same idea on what to do by default. However it
was possible that this ended up in a big argument.

The problem is that display information exists in two different places:
in the vfbs list and in the build info. And for launching the device model,
only the latter is used. But that never gets initialized from libvirt. So
Xen allows the device model to select a default port while libvirt thinks
it has told Xen that this is done by libvirt (though the vfbs config).

While fixing that, I made a stab at actually evaluating the configuration
of the video device. So that it is now possible to at least decide between
a Cirrus or standard VGA emulation and to modify the VRAM within certain
limits using libvirt.

[v2: Check return code of VIR_STRDUP and fix indentation]
[v3: Split out VRAM fixup and return error for unsupported video type]
[v4: Re-arrange code and move VFB setup into libxlMakeVfbList]

Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
---
 src/libxl/libxl_conf.c |   63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c b/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
index 8eeaf82..43cabcf 100644
--- a/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
+++ b/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
@@ -1098,10 +1098,21 @@ libxlMakeVfbList(virPortAllocatorPtr graphicsports,
         libxl_domain_build_info *b_info = &d_config->b_info;
         libxl_device_vfb vfb = d_config->vfbs[0];
 
-        if (libxl_defbool_val(vfb.vnc.enable))
+        if (libxl_defbool_val(vfb.vnc.enable)) {
             memcpy(&b_info->u.hvm.vnc, &vfb.vnc, sizeof(libxl_vnc_info));
-        else if (libxl_defbool_val(vfb.sdl.enable))
+            if (VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.vnc.listen, vfb.vnc.listen) < 0)
+                goto error;
+            if (VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.vnc.passwd, vfb.vnc.passwd) < 0)
+                goto error;
+        } else if (libxl_defbool_val(vfb.sdl.enable)) {
             memcpy(&b_info->u.hvm.sdl, &vfb.sdl, sizeof(libxl_sdl_info));
+            if (VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.sdl.display, vfb.sdl.display) < 0)
+                goto error;
+            if (VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.sdl.xauthority, vfb.sdl.xauthority) < 0)
+                goto error;
+        }
+        if (VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.keymap, vfb.keymap) < 0)
+            goto error;
     }
 
     return 0;
@@ -1363,6 +1374,45 @@ libxlMakeCapabilities(libxl_ctx *ctx)
     return NULL;
 }
 
+static int
+libxlMakeVideo(virDomainDefPtr def, libxl_domain_config *d_config)
+{
+    libxl_domain_build_info *b_info = &d_config->b_info;
+
+    if (d_config->c_info.type != LIBXL_DOMAIN_TYPE_HVM)
+        return 0;
+
+    /*
+     * Take the first defined video device (graphics card) to display
+     * on the first graphics device (display).
+     * Right now only type and vram info is used and anything beside
+     * type xen and vga is mapped to cirrus.
+     */
+    if (def->nvideos) {
+        switch (def->videos[0]->type) {
+            case VIR_DOMAIN_VIDEO_TYPE_VGA:
+            case VIR_DOMAIN_VIDEO_TYPE_XEN:
+                b_info->u.hvm.vga.kind = LIBXL_VGA_INTERFACE_TYPE_STD;
+                break;
+            case VIR_DOMAIN_VIDEO_TYPE_CIRRUS:
+                b_info->u.hvm.vga.kind = LIBXL_VGA_INTERFACE_TYPE_CIRRUS;
+                break;
+            default:
+                virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED,
+                               "%s",
+                               _("video type not supported by libxl"));
+                return -1;
+        }
+        b_info->video_memkb = def->videos[0]->vram ?
+                              def->videos[0]->vram :
+                              LIBXL_MEMKB_DEFAULT;
+    } else {
+        libxl_defbool_set(&b_info->u.hvm.nographic, 1);
+    }
+
+    return 0;
+}
+
 int
 libxlBuildDomainConfig(virPortAllocatorPtr graphicsports,
                        virDomainDefPtr def,
@@ -1389,6 +1439,15 @@ libxlBuildDomainConfig(virPortAllocatorPtr graphicsports,
     if (libxlMakePCIList(def, d_config) < 0)
         return -1;
 
+    /*
+     * Now that any potential VFBs are defined, it is time to update the
+     * build info with the data of the primary display. Some day libxl
+     * might implicitely do so but as it does not right now, better be
+     * explicit.
+     */
+    if (libxlMakeVideo(def, d_config) < 0)
+        return -1;
+
     d_config->on_reboot = def->onReboot;
     d_config->on_poweroff = def->onPoweroff;
     d_config->on_crash = def->onCrash;
-- 
1.7.9.5

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* Re: [PATCH] libxl: Implement basic video device selection
  2014-07-01  7:58 ` [PATCH] libxl: Implement basic video device selection Stefan Bader
@ 2014-07-16 21:05   ` Jim Fehlig
       [not found]   ` <53C6E91E.9010500@suse.com>
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Jim Fehlig @ 2014-07-16 21:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stefan Bader; +Cc: libvir-list, xen-devel

Stefan Bader wrote:
> being as bad with timely responses. Ok, so how about the following?
>
> One note: it could be the STRDUP's are not strictly needed. But
> to me it felt wrong to have two places refer to the same strings
> (as MakeVFB copies the struct containing the pointers).

Agreed.  Without the STRDUP's, seems there is a potential for double
free when libxl_device_vfb and libxl_domain_config objects are disposed.

>  If this
> is not needed, then all changes now in MakeVFB probably can be
> dropped (except setting the keyboard layout, maybe; which I
> might miss ;)).
>
> -Stefan
>
>
> >From a95db265fa4c1a231e7c2d70baa360c6a0500e3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:01:18 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] libxl: Implement basic video device selection
>
> This started as an investigation into an issue where libvirt (using the
> libxl driver) and the Xen host, like an old couple, could not agree on
> who is responsible for selecting the VNC port to use.
>
> Things usually (and a bit surprisingly) did work because, just like that
> old couple, they had the same idea on what to do by default. However it
> was possible that this ended up in a big argument.
>
> The problem is that display information exists in two different places:
> in the vfbs list and in the build info. And for launching the device model,
> only the latter is used. But that never gets initialized from libvirt. So
> Xen allows the device model to select a default port while libvirt thinks
> it has told Xen that this is done by libvirt (though the vfbs config).
>
> While fixing that, I made a stab at actually evaluating the configuration
> of the video device. So that it is now possible to at least decide between
> a Cirrus or standard VGA emulation and to modify the VRAM within certain
> limits using libvirt.
>
> [v2: Check return code of VIR_STRDUP and fix indentation]
> [v3: Split out VRAM fixup and return error for unsupported video type]
> [v4: Re-arrange code and move VFB setup into libxlMakeVfbList]
>   

[meta-comment]
libvirt prefers patch version history like this to be below  the '---'
following your Signed-off-by, so as to not pollute the commit message.

> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
> ---
>  src/libxl/libxl_conf.c |   63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c b/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
> index 8eeaf82..43cabcf 100644
> --- a/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
> +++ b/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
> @@ -1098,10 +1098,21 @@ libxlMakeVfbList(virPortAllocatorPtr graphicsports,
>          libxl_domain_build_info *b_info = &d_config->b_info;
>          libxl_device_vfb vfb = d_config->vfbs[0];
>  
> -        if (libxl_defbool_val(vfb.vnc.enable))
> +        if (libxl_defbool_val(vfb.vnc.enable)) {
>              memcpy(&b_info->u.hvm.vnc, &vfb.vnc, sizeof(libxl_vnc_info));
> -        else if (libxl_defbool_val(vfb.sdl.enable))
> +            if (VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.vnc.listen, vfb.vnc.listen) < 0)
> +                goto error;
> +            if (VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.vnc.passwd, vfb.vnc.passwd) < 0)
> +                goto error;
> +        } else if (libxl_defbool_val(vfb.sdl.enable)) {
>              memcpy(&b_info->u.hvm.sdl, &vfb.sdl, sizeof(libxl_sdl_info));
> +            if (VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.sdl.display, vfb.sdl.display) < 0)
> +                goto error;
> +            if (VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.sdl.xauthority, vfb.sdl.xauthority) < 0)
> +                goto error;
> +        }
> +        if (VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.keymap, vfb.keymap) < 0)
> +            goto error;
>      }
>  
>      return 0;
> @@ -1363,6 +1374,45 @@ libxlMakeCapabilities(libxl_ctx *ctx)
>      return NULL;
>  }
>  
> +static int
> +libxlMakeVideo(virDomainDefPtr def, libxl_domain_config *d_config)
> +{
> +    libxl_domain_build_info *b_info = &d_config->b_info;
> +
> +    if (d_config->c_info.type != LIBXL_DOMAIN_TYPE_HVM)
> +        return 0;
> +
> +    /*
> +     * Take the first defined video device (graphics card) to display
> +     * on the first graphics device (display).
> +     * Right now only type and vram info is used and anything beside
> +     * type xen and vga is mapped to cirrus.
> +     */
> +    if (def->nvideos) {
> +        switch (def->videos[0]->type) {
> +            case VIR_DOMAIN_VIDEO_TYPE_VGA:
> +            case VIR_DOMAIN_VIDEO_TYPE_XEN:
> +                b_info->u.hvm.vga.kind = LIBXL_VGA_INTERFACE_TYPE_STD;
> +                break;
> +            case VIR_DOMAIN_VIDEO_TYPE_CIRRUS:
> +                b_info->u.hvm.vga.kind = LIBXL_VGA_INTERFACE_TYPE_CIRRUS;
> +                break;
> +            default:
> +                virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED,
> +                               "%s",
> +                               _("video type not supported by libxl"));
> +                return -1;
> +        }
> +        b_info->video_memkb = def->videos[0]->vram ?
> +                              def->videos[0]->vram :
> +                              LIBXL_MEMKB_DEFAULT;
>   

While testing this, I noticed that libvirt will set vram to 9216 if not
specified.  E.g.

# cat test.xml
...
    <video>
      <model type='vga'/>
    </video>
...
# virsh define test.xml
# virsh dumpxml test
...
    <video>
      <model type='vga' vram='9216' heads='1'/>
    </video>
...

With type='vga', libxl will then fail to start the domain

libxl: error: libxl_create.c:253:libxl__domain_build_info_setdefault:
videoram must be at least 16 MB for STDVGA on QEMU_XEN

This could be handled in libxlDomainDeviceDefPostParse(), where we can
check for sane vram values for the various VIR_DOMAIN_VIDEO_TYPE_*, or
set sane defaults if vram is not specified.

BTW, sorry again for the delayed response.  I somehow missed your
message and only stumbled across it today :-/.  And be warned that any
followup may be delayed as I'll be on vacation July 18-27.

Regards,
Jim

> +    } else {
> +        libxl_defbool_set(&b_info->u.hvm.nographic, 1);
> +    }
> +
> +    return 0;
> +}
> +
>  int
>  libxlBuildDomainConfig(virPortAllocatorPtr graphicsports,
>                         virDomainDefPtr def,
> @@ -1389,6 +1439,15 @@ libxlBuildDomainConfig(virPortAllocatorPtr graphicsports,
>      if (libxlMakePCIList(def, d_config) < 0)
>          return -1;
>  
> +    /*
> +     * Now that any potential VFBs are defined, it is time to update the
> +     * build info with the data of the primary display. Some day libxl
> +     * might implicitely do so but as it does not right now, better be
> +     * explicit.
> +     */
> +    if (libxlMakeVideo(def, d_config) < 0)
> +        return -1;
> +
>      d_config->on_reboot = def->onReboot;
>      d_config->on_poweroff = def->onPoweroff;
>      d_config->on_crash = def->onCrash;
>   

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* Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] libxl: Implement basic video device selection
       [not found]   ` <53C6E91E.9010500@suse.com>
@ 2014-07-16 21:16     ` Eric Blake
  2014-07-17  9:30     ` Stefan Bader
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Eric Blake @ 2014-07-16 21:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jim Fehlig, Stefan Bader; +Cc: libvir-list, xen-devel


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On 07/16/2014 03:05 PM, Jim Fehlig wrote:

>> +        b_info->video_memkb = def->videos[0]->vram ?
>> +                              def->videos[0]->vram :
>> +                              LIBXL_MEMKB_DEFAULT;
>>   
> 
> While testing this, I noticed that libvirt will set vram to 9216 if not
> specified.  E.g.

The 9216 default for qemu is absolutely stupid.  No real hardware has a
limit of 9M (8M or 16M are more likely).  Please feel free to not
perpetuate that stupidity into libxl.


> With type='vga', libxl will then fail to start the domain
> 
> libxl: error: libxl_create.c:253:libxl__domain_build_info_setdefault:
> videoram must be at least 16 MB for STDVGA on QEMU_XEN
> 
> This could be handled in libxlDomainDeviceDefPostParse(), where we can
> check for sane vram values for the various VIR_DOMAIN_VIDEO_TYPE_*, or
> set sane defaults if vram is not specified.

Sounds like for libxl, a sane default is 16M.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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* Re: [PATCH] libxl: Implement basic video device selection
       [not found]   ` <53C6E91E.9010500@suse.com>
  2014-07-16 21:16     ` [libvirt] " Eric Blake
@ 2014-07-17  9:30     ` Stefan Bader
  2014-07-17 21:31       ` Jim Fehlig
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Bader @ 2014-07-17  9:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jim Fehlig; +Cc: libvir-list, xen-devel


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On 16.07.2014 23:05, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> Stefan Bader wrote:
>> being as bad with timely responses. Ok, so how about the following?
>>
>> One note: it could be the STRDUP's are not strictly needed. But
>> to me it felt wrong to have two places refer to the same strings
>> (as MakeVFB copies the struct containing the pointers).
> 
> Agreed.  Without the STRDUP's, seems there is a potential for double
> free when libxl_device_vfb and libxl_domain_config objects are disposed.
> 
>>  If this
>> is not needed, then all changes now in MakeVFB probably can be
>> dropped (except setting the keyboard layout, maybe; which I
>> might miss ;)).
>>
>> -Stefan
>>
>>
>> >From a95db265fa4c1a231e7c2d70baa360c6a0500e3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
>> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:01:18 +0100
>> Subject: [PATCH] libxl: Implement basic video device selection
>>
>> This started as an investigation into an issue where libvirt (using the
>> libxl driver) and the Xen host, like an old couple, could not agree on
>> who is responsible for selecting the VNC port to use.
>>
>> Things usually (and a bit surprisingly) did work because, just like that
>> old couple, they had the same idea on what to do by default. However it
>> was possible that this ended up in a big argument.
>>
>> The problem is that display information exists in two different places:
>> in the vfbs list and in the build info. And for launching the device model,
>> only the latter is used. But that never gets initialized from libvirt. So
>> Xen allows the device model to select a default port while libvirt thinks
>> it has told Xen that this is done by libvirt (though the vfbs config).
>>
>> While fixing that, I made a stab at actually evaluating the configuration
>> of the video device. So that it is now possible to at least decide between
>> a Cirrus or standard VGA emulation and to modify the VRAM within certain
>> limits using libvirt.
>>
>> [v2: Check return code of VIR_STRDUP and fix indentation]
>> [v3: Split out VRAM fixup and return error for unsupported video type]
>> [v4: Re-arrange code and move VFB setup into libxlMakeVfbList]
>>   
> 
> [meta-comment]
> libvirt prefers patch version history like this to be below  the '---'
> following your Signed-off-by, so as to not pollute the commit message.

Ah yeah, makes sense. I try to keep it in mind.

> 
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
>> ---
>>  src/libxl/libxl_conf.c |   63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>>  1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c b/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
>> index 8eeaf82..43cabcf 100644
>> --- a/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
>> +++ b/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
>> @@ -1098,10 +1098,21 @@ libxlMakeVfbList(virPortAllocatorPtr graphicsports,
>>          libxl_domain_build_info *b_info = &d_config->b_info;
>>          libxl_device_vfb vfb = d_config->vfbs[0];
>>  
>> -        if (libxl_defbool_val(vfb.vnc.enable))
>> +        if (libxl_defbool_val(vfb.vnc.enable)) {
>>              memcpy(&b_info->u.hvm.vnc, &vfb.vnc, sizeof(libxl_vnc_info));
>> -        else if (libxl_defbool_val(vfb.sdl.enable))
>> +            if (VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.vnc.listen, vfb.vnc.listen) < 0)
>> +                goto error;
>> +            if (VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.vnc.passwd, vfb.vnc.passwd) < 0)
>> +                goto error;
>> +        } else if (libxl_defbool_val(vfb.sdl.enable)) {
>>              memcpy(&b_info->u.hvm.sdl, &vfb.sdl, sizeof(libxl_sdl_info));
>> +            if (VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.sdl.display, vfb.sdl.display) < 0)
>> +                goto error;
>> +            if (VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.sdl.xauthority, vfb.sdl.xauthority) < 0)
>> +                goto error;
>> +        }
>> +        if (VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.keymap, vfb.keymap) < 0)
>> +            goto error;
>>      }
>>  
>>      return 0;
>> @@ -1363,6 +1374,45 @@ libxlMakeCapabilities(libxl_ctx *ctx)
>>      return NULL;
>>  }
>>  
>> +static int
>> +libxlMakeVideo(virDomainDefPtr def, libxl_domain_config *d_config)
>> +{
>> +    libxl_domain_build_info *b_info = &d_config->b_info;
>> +
>> +    if (d_config->c_info.type != LIBXL_DOMAIN_TYPE_HVM)
>> +        return 0;
>> +
>> +    /*
>> +     * Take the first defined video device (graphics card) to display
>> +     * on the first graphics device (display).
>> +     * Right now only type and vram info is used and anything beside
>> +     * type xen and vga is mapped to cirrus.
>> +     */
>> +    if (def->nvideos) {
>> +        switch (def->videos[0]->type) {
>> +            case VIR_DOMAIN_VIDEO_TYPE_VGA:
>> +            case VIR_DOMAIN_VIDEO_TYPE_XEN:
>> +                b_info->u.hvm.vga.kind = LIBXL_VGA_INTERFACE_TYPE_STD;
>> +                break;
>> +            case VIR_DOMAIN_VIDEO_TYPE_CIRRUS:
>> +                b_info->u.hvm.vga.kind = LIBXL_VGA_INTERFACE_TYPE_CIRRUS;
>> +                break;
>> +            default:
>> +                virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED,
>> +                               "%s",
>> +                               _("video type not supported by libxl"));
>> +                return -1;
>> +        }
>> +        b_info->video_memkb = def->videos[0]->vram ?
>> +                              def->videos[0]->vram :
>> +                              LIBXL_MEMKB_DEFAULT;
>>   
> 
> While testing this, I noticed that libvirt will set vram to 9216 if not
> specified.  E.g.
> 
> # cat test.xml
> ...
>     <video>
>       <model type='vga'/>
>     </video>
> ...
> # virsh define test.xml
> # virsh dumpxml test
> ...
>     <video>
>       <model type='vga' vram='9216' heads='1'/>
>     </video>
> ...
> 
> With type='vga', libxl will then fail to start the domain
> 
> libxl: error: libxl_create.c:253:libxl__domain_build_info_setdefault:
> videoram must be at least 16 MB for STDVGA on QEMU_XEN

Heh, thats "funny". At least this was the same thing I observed when creating
new guests with virt-manager. Maybe I blamed the wrong part of the stack. Or
they both do it. This lead the the second part of my changes which was not so
clear about whether it should or should not go upstream.

So from my side a fixup of some kind would be good but we can work on this in a
follow-up.

> 
> This could be handled in libxlDomainDeviceDefPostParse(), where we can
> check for sane vram values for the various VIR_DOMAIN_VIDEO_TYPE_*, or
> set sane defaults if vram is not specified.
> 
> BTW, sorry again for the delayed response.  I somehow missed your
> message and only stumbled across it today :-/.  And be warned that any
> followup may be delayed as I'll be on vacation July 18-27.

Oh I am equally bad at having it sit in my reader and then getting back at
random times. :)

-Stefan
> 
> Regards,
> Jim
> 
>> +    } else {
>> +        libxl_defbool_set(&b_info->u.hvm.nographic, 1);
>> +    }
>> +
>> +    return 0;
>> +}
>> +
>>  int
>>  libxlBuildDomainConfig(virPortAllocatorPtr graphicsports,
>>                         virDomainDefPtr def,
>> @@ -1389,6 +1439,15 @@ libxlBuildDomainConfig(virPortAllocatorPtr graphicsports,
>>      if (libxlMakePCIList(def, d_config) < 0)
>>          return -1;
>>  
>> +    /*
>> +     * Now that any potential VFBs are defined, it is time to update the
>> +     * build info with the data of the primary display. Some day libxl
>> +     * might implicitely do so but as it does not right now, better be
>> +     * explicit.
>> +     */
>> +    if (libxlMakeVideo(def, d_config) < 0)
>> +        return -1;
>> +
>>      d_config->on_reboot = def->onReboot;
>>      d_config->on_poweroff = def->onPoweroff;
>>      d_config->on_crash = def->onCrash;
>>   



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* Re: [PATCH] libxl: Implement basic video device selection
  2014-07-17  9:30     ` Stefan Bader
@ 2014-07-17 21:31       ` Jim Fehlig
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From: Jim Fehlig @ 2014-07-17 21:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stefan Bader; +Cc: libvir-list, xen-devel

Stefan Bader wrote:
> On 16.07.2014 23:05, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>   
>> While testing this, I noticed that libvirt will set vram to 9216 if not
>> specified.  E.g.
>>
>> # cat test.xml
>> ...
>>     <video>
>>       <model type='vga'/>
>>     </video>
>> ...
>> # virsh define test.xml
>> # virsh dumpxml test
>> ...
>>     <video>
>>       <model type='vga' vram='9216' heads='1'/>
>>     </video>
>> ...
>>
>> With type='vga', libxl will then fail to start the domain
>>
>> libxl: error: libxl_create.c:253:libxl__domain_build_info_setdefault:
>> videoram must be at least 16 MB for STDVGA on QEMU_XEN
>>     
>
> Heh, thats "funny". At least this was the same thing I observed when creating
> new guests with virt-manager. Maybe I blamed the wrong part of the stack. Or
> they both do it. This lead the the second part of my changes which was not so
> clear about whether it should or should not go upstream.
>
> So from my side a fixup of some kind would be good but we can work on this in a
> follow-up.
>   

The problem is, some domains may not start after applying this patch. 
Consider a domain with the following video config

    <video>
      <model type='vga' vram='9216' heads='1'/>
    </video>

This would work pre-patch since libxl_domain_build_info->video_memkb
would be initialized to LIBXL_MEMKB_DEFAULT when calling
libxl_domain_build_info_init().  But the domain will fail to start
post-patch since video_memkb is set to an invalid value.

I know the current behavior is not correct either, but would be nice to
fix everything up in one series.  I started on a second patch that would
validate input or set sane defaults in libxlDomainDeviceDefPostParse(),
but while testing realized that sane defaults depend on which qemu is
used.  E.g. the minimum video_memkb values have doubled with QEMU_XEN vs
QEMU_XEN_TRADITIONAL - see $xen_root/tools/libxl/libxl_create.c,
libxl__domain_build_info_setdefault().  [I'll mention again that it is
unfortunate that QEMU_XEN vs QEMU_XEN_TRADITIONAL leaked through the
public API.]

I'm thinking of writing a utility function to detect the old vs new
qemu, hoping there is something in the help output or similar to
determine which one <emulator> is.  Such a function would be useful for
David Scott's old patch to support arbitrary user-provided <emulator>

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-April/msg02119.html

But alas, this will have to wait until I return from vacation.

Regards,
Jim

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