From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
George Dunlap <dunlapg@umich.edu>,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Chunyan Liu <cyliu@suse.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] libxl: add new pvusb backend "qusb" provided by qemu
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 20:07:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160324200750.GB14940@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56EBBB3A.6070804@suse.com>
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 09:24:26AM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 17/03/16 17:55, George Dunlap wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> wrote:
> >> Add a new pvusb backend type "qusb" which is provided by qemu. It can
> >> be selected either by specifying the type directly in the configuration
> >> or it is selected automatically by libxl in case there is no "usbback"
> >> driver loaded.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> >
> > Oh, last thing -- shouldn't we have a way for libxl to tell whether
> > qemu can provide a qusb backend before we offer to start it up?
>
> How? Is this possible for qdisk? Or for an emulated frame buffer?
>
I don't think it is possible at the moment. But I think you might be
able to do it either via qmp command or parsing qemu help string. The
latter functionality is implemented in Ian's device model deprivilege
patch series IIRC -- but it is not yet merged either.
Wei.
>
> Juergen
>
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-10 15:00 [PATCH 0/3] libxl: add support for qemu base pvusb backend Juergen Gross
2016-03-10 15:00 ` [PATCH 1/3] libxl: make libxl__need_xenpv_qemu() operate on domain config Juergen Gross
2016-03-17 16:53 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-18 8:23 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-10 15:00 ` [PATCH 2/3] libxl: add domain config parameter to force start of qemu Juergen Gross
2016-03-17 16:06 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-18 8:11 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-21 14:28 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-21 14:44 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-10 15:00 ` [PATCH 3/3] libxl: add new pvusb backend "qusb" provided by qemu Juergen Gross
2016-03-17 16:39 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-18 8:22 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-17 16:55 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-18 8:24 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-24 20:07 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-03-25 6:09 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-29 9:45 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-29 10:35 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-30 4:43 ` Juergen Gross
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