Re: Unable to get QXL vga working

From: ZhouPeng <zpengxen@gmail.com>
To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>,
	Fantu <fantonifabio@tiscali.it>
Subject: Re: Unable to get QXL vga working
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 20:56:41 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAh7U5PB5AeniU38J2f_bWPUOkdiyCJYnxNb4+nJPUV1iQ=czg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1205031343410.26786@kaball-desktop>

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.
>
>> How to configure upstream-qemu-xen:
>> ./configure --target-list=i386-softmmu --enable-spice
>>    --enable-xen --extra-cflags=-I${path-to-xen}/dist/install/usr/include
>>    --extra-ldflags=-L${path-to-xen}/dist/install/usr/lib
>>
>> CCing to Stefano, who may help you on upstream-qemu-xen.
>
> Yes, it is true that you need to add --enable-spice to the configure
> command line options.


-- 
Zhou Peng