[libvirt] [PATCH 0/5] Add vmport feature (v3)
Marc-André Lureau
marcandre.lureau at gmail.com
Mon Apr 13 08:27:00 UTC 2015
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On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Marc-André Lureau <
marcandre.lureau at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The QEMU machine vmport option allows to set the VMWare IO port
> emulation. This emulation is useful for absolute pointer input when the
> guest has vmware input drivers, and is enabled by default for kvm.
>
> However it is unnecessary for Spice-enabled VM, since the agent already
> handles absolute pointer and multi-monitors. Furthermore, it prevents
> Spice from switching to relative input since the regular ps/2 pointer
> driver is replaced by the vmware driver. It is thus advised to disable
> vmport when using a Spice VM. This will permit the Spice client to
> switch from absolute to relative pointer, as it may be required for
> certain games or applications.
>
> The following patch series allows to configure the vmport feature.
> The first version sent used a domain attribute, Daniel Berrange
> suggested to use a feature instead. I sent a second version that
> didn't receive reviews. Hopefully this one will stand more chances!
>
> cheers
>
> Marc-André Lureau (5):
> docs: add domain vmport feature
> domain/conf: add VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_VMPORT
> qemu: add QEMU_CAPS_MACHINE_VMPORT_OPT
> qemu: add machine vmport argument
> tests: add machine-vmport-opt qemu test
>
> docs/formatdomain.html.in | 6 +++++
> docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 9 +++++++
> src/conf/domain_conf.c | 5 +++-
> src/conf/domain_conf.h | 1 +
> src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 6 +++++
> src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h | 1 +
> src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 14 +++++++++++
> .../qemuxml2argv-machine-vmport-opt.args | 6 +++++
> .../qemuxml2argv-machine-vmport-opt.xml | 28
> ++++++++++++++++++++++
> tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 2 ++
> 10 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> create mode 100644
> tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-machine-vmport-opt.args
> create mode 100644
> tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-machine-vmport-opt.xml
>
> --
> 2.1.0
>
>
--
Marc-André Lureau
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