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

[Alon Levy]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:05:06PM -0500, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 21:48 +0200, Alon Levy wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 05:00:46PM +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Alon Levy <alevy at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 02:59:30PM +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> > > >> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Gianluca Cecchi
> > > >> <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I'm going to test...
> > > >> > Gianluca
> > > >> >
> > > >>
> > > >> If I run the w2k3 vm with vga as video adapter I get normal behaviour.
> > > >> If I set qxl and spice, the vm enters the initial black screen with
> > > >> bars at bottom and then shutdowns:
> > > >
> > > > shutdowns? anyway, this patchset is not good enough for qemu-kvm, will
> > > > reply to thread when we have something working.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > Ok.
> > > shutdowns in log file.
> > > From a console point of view it powers off directly...
> > 
> > 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
> 
> I will get an updated qemu for F15 and F14 virt-preview out today.
> 

Actually, I'm just reading a better patch with hans, if you can wait a little
I'll send the patches to you directly too (add you as cc).

> Thanks,
> Justin
> 
>