<div dir="ltr">ping<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Marc-André Lureau <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marcandre.lureau@gmail.com" target="_blank">marcandre.lureau@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
The QEMU machine vmport option allows to set the VMWare IO port<br>
emulation. This emulation is useful for absolute pointer input when the<br>
guest has vmware input drivers, and is enabled by default for kvm.<br>
<br>
However it is unnecessary for Spice-enabled VM, since the agent already<br>
handles absolute pointer and multi-monitors. Furthermore, it prevents<br>
Spice from switching to relative input since the regular ps/2 pointer<br>
driver is replaced by the vmware driver. It is thus advised to disable<br>
vmport when using a Spice VM. This will permit the Spice client to<br>
switch from absolute to relative pointer, as it may be required for<br>
certain games or applications.<br>
<br>
The following patch series allows to configure the vmport feature.<br>
<br>
v2:<br>
- use a feature instead of a domain attribute, suggested by D. Berrange<br>
v3:<br>
- use qmp query for caps instead of version<br>
v4:<br>
- use vesion check & qmp, add runtime check for machine kind<br>
<br>
Marc-André Lureau (6):<br>
docs: add domain vmport feature<br>
domain/conf: add VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_VMPORT<br>
qemu: add QEMU_CAPS_MACHINE_VMPORT_OPT<br>
qemu: add virQEMUCapsSupportsVmport<br>
qemu: add machine vmport argument<br>
tests: add machine-vmport-opt qemu test<br>
<br>
docs/<a href="http://formatdomain.html.in" target="_blank">formatdomain.html.in</a> | 6 ++++<br>
docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 9 ++++++<br>
src/conf/domain_conf.c | 5 +++-<br>
src/conf/domain_conf.h | 1 +<br>
src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 20 +++++++++++++<br>
src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h | 4 +++<br>
src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 33 +++++++++-------------<br>
src/qemu/qemu_domain.c | 19 +++++++++++++<br>
src/qemu/qemu_domain.h | 3 ++<br>
.../qemuxml2argv-machine-vmport-opt.args | 6 ++++<br>
.../qemuxml2argv-machine-vmport-opt.xml | 28 ++++++++++++++++++<br>
tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 2 ++<br>
12 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)<br>
create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-machine-vmport-opt.args<br>
create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-machine-vmport-opt.xml<br>
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