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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: new parameters for upstream qemu's vga interfaces



Il 10/10/2013 16:39, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto:
Il 10/10/2013 14:36, Sander Eikelenboom ha scritto:
Thursday, October 10, 2013, 2:29:46 PM, you wrote:

Il 10/10/2013 12:51, Sander Eikelenboom ha scritto:
Thursday, October 10, 2013, 12:09:44 PM, you wrote:

Il 10/10/2013 11:32, Ian Campbell ha scritto:
On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 11:26 +0200, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
Il 30/09/2013 12:12, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto:
Change the qemu parameters for upstream qemu vgas to the
new ones (-device), introduced some years ago.
Ping
Please CC the qemu maintainers (Stefano & Anthony), although these
patches touch the toolstack they are logically qemu patches and need
their ack.
Thanks for your reply, I added Anthony on CC and Stefano was already on it.
Should "None" be added as option as well ?

There is already a nographic xl parameter that controls the
corresponding qemu parameter, it should be the same thing.
And FWIK the none option applies only to the old -vga parameter and
according to qemu docs/qdev-device-use.txt, the new way to do it is with
-nodefaults (I already made a patch to add it). -nographic is probably
also deprecated.
In this conversation http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/172385
the -nographic is said to be deprecated by peter maydell.
Didn't know -vga none was also out the door already ...


I did some test and I found out that now is impossible disable the emulated vga on hvm domUs.
I got cirrus vga (the default) even if vga xl parameter is not setted.
Also with nographic enabled there is the emulated vga.
I think that good solution is:
- add this patch and nodefault patch
update: nodefault patch is already on git
- add "none" option to vga xl parameter (that will exclude any emulated vga qemu parameters) - remove -nographic parameter in upstream qemu, making nographic xl paramater deprecated and equivalent to new vga="none" xl parameter.

With these changes all should be working and without qemu deprecated parameters (-nographic and -vga).
I'm waiting Stefano and/or Anthony replies before write the patches.

Another question is about xenfb vga that seems missed on new -device parameter. I used it to have basic Spice support for pv working: http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-09/msg03207.html
Anyone can update about it on newer qemu versions please?

Thanks for any reply

Ping...


Signed-off-by: Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@xxxxxxx>
---
     tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c |   12 +++++-------
     1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c b/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c
index 43c3bec..2c6f5d9 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c
@@ -486,15 +486,13 @@ static char ** libxl__build_device_model_args_new(libxl__gc *gc,
                  switch (b_info->u.hvm.vga.kind) {
             case LIBXL_VGA_INTERFACE_TYPE_STD:
-            flexarray_vappend(dm_args, "-vga", "std", NULL);
+            flexarray_append_pair(dm_args, "-device", "VGA");
                 break;
             case LIBXL_VGA_INTERFACE_TYPE_CIRRUS:
-            flexarray_vappend(dm_args, "-vga", "cirrus", NULL);
-            if (b_info->video_memkb) {
-                flexarray_vappend(dm_args, "-global",
- GCSPRINTF("vga.vram_size_mb=%d",
- libxl__sizekb_to_mb(b_info->video_memkb)), NULL);
-            }
+ flexarray_append_pair(dm_args, "-device", "cirrus-vga");
+            flexarray_append_pair(dm_args, "-global",
+                GCSPRINTF("vga.vram_size_mb=%d",
+ libxl__sizekb_to_mb(b_info->video_memkb)));
                 break;
             }







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