[libvirt] [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] libxl: Support PV consoles

[Jim Fehlig]

Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 11:24 -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>   
>> Jim Fehlig wrote:
>>     
>>> Ian Campbell wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Currently the driver only exposes the ability to connect to the serial console
>>>> of a Xen guest, which doesn't work for a PV guest. Since for an HVM guest the
>>>> serial devices are duplicated as consoles it is sufficient to just use the
>>>> console devices unconditionally.
>>>>
>>>> Tested with the following bit of config XML:
>>>>
>>>> <domain type='xen'>
>>>>   ...
>>>>   <devices>
>>>>     <console type='pty'>
>>>>       <target type='xen'/>
>>>>     </console>
>>>>   </devices>
>>>> </domain>
>>>>
>>>> I have observed and tested this on ARM but I believe it also applies to x86 PV
>>>> guests.
>>>>   
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Yep, I think you are right.
>>>
>>> ACK to the patch.  I'll push it, after a bit of testing.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell at citrix.com>
>>>> Cc: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig at suse.com>
>>>> Cc: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli at citrix.com>
>>>> Cc: Clark Laughlin <clark.laughlin at linaro.org>
>>>> ---
>>>> v2: Just use nconsoles unconditionally, they contain serial too
>>>> ---
>>>>  src/libxl/libxl_driver.c |   12 +++++++++---
>>>>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c b/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c
>>>> index a6ae8a1..535e7da 100644
>>>> --- a/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c
>>>> +++ b/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c
>>>> @@ -3780,6 +3780,7 @@ libxlDomainOpenConsole(virDomainPtr dom,
>>>>  {
>>>>      virDomainObjPtr vm = NULL;
>>>>      int ret = -1;
>>>> +    libxl_console_type console_type = LIBXL_CONSOLE_TYPE_UNKNOWN;
>>>>     
>>>>         
>> This doesn't compile with Xen 4.2.x
>>
>> libxl/libxl_driver.c: In function 'libxlDomainOpenConsole':
>> libxl/libxl_driver.c:3783:39: error: 'LIBXL_CONSOLE_TYPE_UNKNOWN'
>> undeclared (first use in this function)
>> libxl/libxl_driver.c:3783:39: note: each undeclared identifier is
>> reported only once for each function it appears in
>>
>> xen.git commit 166bb0fe introduced UNKNOWN in the enum.  I suppose it is
>> best to initialize console_type with 0, along  with a comment?
>>     
>
> Yes, I think that would be appropriate. Or possibly not initialising the
> variable at all will work, in any code path which uses it it is
> initialised (it is set iff chr is set I think).
>   

Doh, right.  I dropped initializing the variable and pushed the patch. 
Thanks!

Regards,
Jim