Re: [kvmarm] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Virtio-desktop: Virtio-based virtual desktop

2013-02-18 Thread Anup Patel
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 24.01.2013, at 10:25, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:40:24AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: > >> IMHO, If we have something like Virtio-desktop specification then all > >> possible guest OSes can have support for it

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Virtio-desktop: Virtio-based virtual desktop

2013-02-18 Thread Blue Swirl
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Anup Patel wrote: > Hi All, > > How about having a generic Virtio-based machine for emulating a virtual > desktop ? I have also thought about this, current virtio design is not very clean. On the downside, pure no-legacy approach might not work well if you want th

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Virtio-desktop: Virtio-based virtual desktop

2013-02-18 Thread Anthony Liguori
Anup Patel writes: > Hi All, > > How about having a generic Virtio-based machine for emulating a virtual > desktop ? > > I know folks have already thought about this and probably also tried > something or other on this front but, it will be good to know the downsides. > > Virtio-desktop can be a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Virtio-desktop: Virtio-based virtual desktop

2013-02-18 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Anup Patel wrote: > On 24 January 2013 14:55, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:40:24AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: >> > IMHO, If we have something like Virtio-desktop specification then all >> > possible guest OSes can have support for it and d

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Virtio-desktop: Virtio-based virtual desktop

2013-02-18 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:40:24AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: > IMHO, If we have something like Virtio-desktop specification then all > possible guest OSes can have support for it and different hypervisor can > emulate it without worrying about guest support. At this point x86 virtualization is matu

Re: [kvmarm] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Virtio-desktop: Virtio-based virtual desktop

2013-01-27 Thread Alexander Graf
On 27.01.2013, at 15:07, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Anup Patel writes: > >> Hi All, >> >> How about having a generic Virtio-based machine for emulating a virtual >> desktop ? >> >> I know folks have already thought about this and probably also tried >> something or other on this front but, it w

Re: [kvmarm] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Virtio-desktop: Virtio-based virtual desktop

2013-01-25 Thread Alexander Graf
On 25.01.2013, at 20:04, Blue Swirl wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Anup Patel wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> How about having a generic Virtio-based machine for emulating a virtual >> desktop ? > > I have also thought about this, current virtio design is not very > clean. On the downside,

Re: [kvmarm] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Virtio-desktop: Virtio-based virtual desktop

2013-01-24 Thread Rob Taylor
On 24/01/13 14:52, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 24.01.2013, at 15:42, Peter Maydell wrote: >> ...do we have an ARM PCI controller of any working kind in >> the kernel? versatilepb's PCI controller doesn't count as >> it is utterly broken :-) > > Don't the Marvell chips have PCI? And Tegra? I'm su

Re: [kvmarm] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Virtio-desktop: Virtio-based virtual desktop

2013-01-24 Thread Alexander Graf
On 24.01.2013, at 15:42, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 24 January 2013 14:38, Alexander Graf wrote: >> But check out the QEMU e500 machine. We have a fully device tree >> based machine type in the kernel. QEMU drives it by generating a >> device tree for devices it actually exposes on the fly. > >

Re: [kvmarm] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Virtio-desktop: Virtio-based virtual desktop

2013-01-24 Thread Peter Maydell
On 24 January 2013 14:38, Alexander Graf wrote: > But check out the QEMU e500 machine. We have a fully device tree > based machine type in the kernel. QEMU drives it by generating a > device tree for devices it actually exposes on the fly. The ARM equivalent for that would be mach-virt, I think (

Re: [kvmarm] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Virtio-desktop: Virtio-based virtual desktop

2013-01-24 Thread Alexander Graf
On 24.01.2013, at 10:25, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:40:24AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: >> IMHO, If we have something like Virtio-desktop specification then all >> possible guest OSes can have support for it and different hypervisor can >> emulate it without worrying about g

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Virtio-desktop: Virtio-based virtual desktop

2013-01-24 Thread Anup Patel
On 24 January 2013 14:55, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:40:24AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: > > IMHO, If we have something like Virtio-desktop specification then all > > possible guest OSes can have support for it and different hypervisor can > > emulate it without worrying abo