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

2013-01-27 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 08:31:54PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: On 25.01.2013, at 20:04, Blue Swirl wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Anup Patel anup.pa...@linaro.org wrote: Hi All, How about having a generic Virtio-based machine for emulating a virtual desktop ? I have

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

2013-01-27 Thread Blue Swirl
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Gleb Natapov g...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 08:31:54PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: On 25.01.2013, at 20:04, Blue Swirl wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Anup Patel anup.pa...@linaro.org wrote: Hi All, How about having a generic

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

2013-01-27 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 10:12:20AM +, Blue Swirl wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Gleb Natapov g...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 08:31:54PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: On 25.01.2013, at 20:04, Blue Swirl wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Anup Patel

Re: [Qemu-devel] [kvmarm] [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 anup.pa...@linaro.org 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

Re: [Qemu-devel] [kvmarm] [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 anup.pa...@linaro.org 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

Re: [Qemu-devel] [kvmarm] [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 guest

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

2013-01-24 Thread Peter Maydell
On 24 January 2013 14:38, Alexander Graf ag...@suse.de 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

Re: [Qemu-devel] [kvmarm] [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 ag...@suse.de 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

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

2013-01-24 Thread Anup Patel
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Alexander Graf ag...@suse.de 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