[PATCH v6 14/18] libxl: require qemu in dom0 for multiple stubdomain consoles

[Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@xxxxxxxxx>]

From: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Device model stubdomains (both Mini-OS + qemu-trad and linux + qemu-xen)
are always started with at least 3 consoles: log, save, and restore.
Until xenconsoled learns how to handle multiple consoles, this is needed
for save/restore support.

For Mini-OS stubdoms, this is a bug.  In practice, it works in most
cases because there is something else that triggers qemu in dom0 too:
vfb/vkb added if vnc/sdl/spice is enabled.

Additionally, Linux-based stubdomain waits for all the backends to
initialize during boot. Lack of some console backends results in
stubdomain startup timeout.

This is a temporary patch until xenconsoled will be improved.

Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[Updated commit message with Marek's explanation from mailing list.]
Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v6
 - Update commit message
---
 tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c b/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c
index c66e8ebc24..fb87deae91 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_dm.c
@@ -2504,7 +2504,11 @@ static void spawn_stub_launch_dm(libxl__egc *egc,
         }
     }
 
-    need_qemu = libxl__need_xenpv_qemu(gc, dm_config);
+    /*
+     * Until xenconsoled learns how to handle multiple consoles, require qemu
+     * in dom0 to serve consoles for a stubdomain - it require at least 3 of 
them.
+     */
+    need_qemu = 1 || libxl__need_xenpv_qemu(gc, &sdss->dm_config);
 
     for (i = 0; i < num_console; i++) {
         libxl__device device;
@@ -2636,7 +2640,11 @@ static void qmp_proxy_spawn_outcome(libxl__egc *egc,
                                     int rc)
 {
     STATE_AO_GC(sdss->qmp_proxy_spawn.ao);
-    int need_pvqemu = libxl__need_xenpv_qemu(gc, &sdss->dm_config);
+    /*
+     * Until xenconsoled learns how to handle multiple consoles, require qemu
+     * in dom0 to serve consoles for a stubdomain - it require at least 3 of 
them.
+     */
+    int need_pvqemu = 1 || libxl__need_xenpv_qemu(gc, &sdss->dm_config);
 
     if (rc) goto out;
 
-- 
2.25.1