[fedora-virt] qxl locking fixes round 2 (was: Re: spice and qemu 0.14)

[Alon Levy]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:31:44AM +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Alon Levy <alevy at redhat.com> wrote:
> > here is a new patchset, it's basically the old plus first patch of reverting gerd's
> > (cpu_single_env hackage) and last one removing all the locks, after being
> > convinced by hans (cc'ed) and uri that it should work. Tested with rhel
> > qemu-kvm, which should be identical (tm) to fedora qemu-kvm. On account of
> > being too lame to figure out how to add the patches to qemu.spec and doing a
> > scratch build right now..
> >
> > Happy testing,
> > Alon
> >
> >
> 
> hello,
> this seems to work for me.
great, thanks for testing.

> I'm able to run my w2k3 vm with vga+vnc and then I'm able to change to
> qxl+spice and it works again!
> When booting the guest I get the os desktop console inside the "show
> graphical console" window and I can also start
> spicec -h localhost -p 5900
> from a terminal and so "acquire" the console.
> Sound and video work (tested only some youtube videos).
> In attach a .png with details from inside the vm.
> Steps done:
> - baseline: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/jforbes/virt-preview/fedora-14/SRPMS/qemu-0.14.0-2.fc14.src.rpm
> - download your patches but used only from 0002 to 0006 (0001 already
> applied entirely in the sources above) and put inside the SOURCES
> subdir
> - patched qemu.spec (see attach resulting from diff -u qemu.spec.orig
> qemu.spec.new)
> - rpmbuild -bb qemu.spec
> - installed :
> # rpm -Fvh *0-3*rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>    1:qemu-common            ########################################### [ 20%]
>    2:qemu-system-x86        ########################################### [ 40%]
>    3:qemu-img               ########################################### [ 60%]
>    4:qemu-kvm               ########################################### [ 80%]
>    5:qemu-kvm-tools         ########################################### [100%]
> 
> Is w7 supposed to work too, so that I can go and test or will I need
> newer qxl drivers than 0.6.1?
Arnon (cc'ed) is building newer drivers later today, someone already reported
the drivers in spice-space don't work with newer qxl, so you should probably wait
for his drivers.

Alon
> 
> thanks
> Gianluca