Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1] Make demu.git compiler under Xen 4.7 (and later)

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [mailto:konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 14 February 2017 15:32
> To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] Make demu.git compiler under Xen 4.7 (and later)
> 
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 03:26:34PM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [mailto:konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: 14 February 2017 15:16
> > > To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] Make demu.git compiler under Xen 4.7 (and
> later)
> > >
> > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 08:58:42AM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [mailto:konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > > > > Sent: 10 February 2017 21:52
> > > > > To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>; xen-
> > > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > > Subject: [PATCH v1] Make demu.git compiler under Xen 4.7 (and
> later)
> > > > >
> > > > > Hey!
> > > > >
> > > > > This patch lets me compile this emulator under Xen 4.7.
> > > > >
> > > > > It probably can be done better (#ifdef magic?) but for right
> > > > > now this gets me past the compile errors.
> > > > >
> > > > > BTW, are there any other outstanding patches against this tree?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > This is still my private project, although if it's generally useful then
> maybe it
> > > can be adopted as part of the Xen project?
> > >
> > > It is a nice project!
> > >
> >
> > Glad you find it useful :-)
> >
> > > By 'adopted' you mean being built as part of xen.git (like minios.git?) -
> and
> > > all of those requirements?
> > >
> >
> > Something like that, then it can be incorporated as an option into the xen
> build and we can make sure any dependency issues like this are caught in
> future.
> >
> > I guess I'd probably make the 'console' branch master in a more official
> repo... I could even look at adding the necessary tooling into libxl to kick 
> it off
> too :-)
> 
> Oooh, and what kind of bribe^H^H^H^H incentive should I send your way?
> 

A time machine? :-)

  Paul

> >
> >   Paul
> >
> > > >
> > > > For the benefit of the list, there are two branches in
> > > http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/pauldu/demu.git
> > > >
> > > > - The 'master' branch is a very basic standalone device emulator. It
> serves
> > > as boilerplate for emulation of a single PCI device.
> > > >
> > > > - The 'console' branch is a (PS/2) Keyboard-VGA-Mouse emulator using
> > > libVNCServer which can potentially be used with an HVM guest with PV
> > > network and storage drivers, thus removing the need to use QEMU.
> demu is
> > > a small and constrained piece of code and thus presents a much smaller
> > > attack surface. The original intention was also to run it in a 'console
> service
> > > domain' to further contain damage it was successfully attacked.
> > > >
> > > > It's likely that I will patch the code further once my current work on
> > > libxendevicemodel is done (following acceptance of my recent privcmd
> > > patches).
> > >
> > > <nods>
> > > >
> > > >   Cheers,
> > > >
> > > >     Paul
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >  demu.c | 7 ++++++-
> > > > >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > >
> > > > > Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (1):
> > > > >       Make it compiler under Xen 4.7.
> > > >

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