[libvirt] [PATCH v4 0/6] Add vmport feature

[Marc-André Lureau]

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On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 1:57 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.
>
> v2:
>  - use a feature instead of a domain attribute, suggested by D. Berrange
> v3:
>  - use qmp query for caps instead of version
> v4:
>  - use vesion check & qmp, add runtime check for machine kind
>
> Marc-André Lureau (6):
>   docs: add domain vmport feature
>   domain/conf: add VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_VMPORT
>   qemu: add QEMU_CAPS_MACHINE_VMPORT_OPT
>   qemu: add virQEMUCapsSupportsVmport
>   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                       | 20 +++++++++++++
>  src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h                       |  4 +++
>  src/qemu/qemu_command.c                            | 33
> +++++++++-------------
>  src/qemu/qemu_domain.c                             | 19 +++++++++++++
>  src/qemu/qemu_domain.h                             |  3 ++
>  .../qemuxml2argv-machine-vmport-opt.args           |  6 ++++
>  .../qemuxml2argv-machine-vmport-opt.xml            | 28 ++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c                           |  2 ++
>  12 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>  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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