[libvirt] [PATCH v2 2/2] qemu: add spice opengl support
Ján Tomko
jtomko at redhat.com
Mon Feb 22 15:11:46 UTC 2016
[dropping Andrea from the cc-list for the sake of his Inbox]
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 09:49:04AM -0500, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > On 19.02.2016 15:30, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > > Add Spice graphics gl attribute. qemu 2.6 should have -spice gl=on argument
> > > to
> > > enable opengl rendering context (patches on the ML). This is necessary to
> > > actually enable virgl rendering.
> > >
> > > Add a qemuxml2argv test for virtio-gpu + spice with virgl.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau at redhat.com>
> > > ---
> > > docs/formatdomain.html.in | 8 ++++
> > > docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 8 ++++
> > > src/conf/domain_conf.c | 26 ++++++++++++-
> > > src/conf/domain_conf.h | 1 +
> > > src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 2 +
> > > src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h | 1 +
> > > src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 13 +++++++
> > > tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.6.0-1.caps | 1 +
> > > tests/qemucapabilitiesdata/caps_2.6.0-1.replies | 4 ++
> > > .../qemuxml2argv-video-virtio-gpu-spice-gl.args | 24 ++++++++++++
> > > .../qemuxml2argv-video-virtio-gpu-spice-gl.xml | 38 ++++++++++++++++++
> > > tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 6 +++
> > > .../qemuxml2xmlout-video-virtio-gpu-spice-gl.xml | 45
> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c | 1 +
> > > 14 files changed, 177 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > create mode 100644
> > > tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-video-virtio-gpu-spice-gl.args
> > > create mode 100644
> > > tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-video-virtio-gpu-spice-gl.xml
> > > create mode 100644
> > > tests/qemuxml2xmloutdata/qemuxml2xmlout-video-virtio-gpu-spice-gl.xml
> >
> > Looking good. ACK to the design. But I'd rather postpone pushing until
> > qemu has released the feature. Otherwise we may end up with different
> > functionality we claim to be supported than qemu does. Yet again.
Generally, having it merged in qemu.git master has been enough for us.
> How much of a problem is this, since there are caps checks? (assuming the interface in qemu doesn't change - I don't think it will).
>
That is the assumption we are trying not to make.
> We were aiming for fedora 24 if possible, but I see qemu 2.6 is planned for 04-26, which is a week after Fedora code complete deadline 04-19. It's a bit sad to delay by >2 months given that Spice support is now finally ready. Many people are eager to have accelerated VMs in virt-manager, I wonder what solution we can find to shorten the delay.
>
I presume the option will hit qemu.git much sooner than that.
Jan
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