Re: [Xen-devel] Question about upstream qemu and seabios on xen git

[Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@xxxxxxx>]

Il 29/07/2013 13:27, Stefano Stabellini ha scritto:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
> > Il 29/07/2013 11:06, Ian Campbell ha scritto:
> > > On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 16:17 +0200, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
> > > > I continue to do periodical test of xen-unstable with latest stable
> > > > and/or unstable upstream qemu and seabios version.
> > > > Today for example I start to test qemu 1.5.1, no bugs found for now.
> > > >
> > > > I think is better to maintain updated upstream qemu and seabios also on
> > > > xen gits while xen is not "code freeze".
> > > > For xen develop/testing xen gits are mainly used, but on production the
> > > > distributions will use latest stable qemu version (for example on debian
> > > > experimental is releasing xen 4.3 and qemu is already 1.5.1 on debian
> > > > unstable but xen 4.3 was freezed with qemu 1.3 and mainly tested with it).
> > > > Therefore should be best to have all components early updated as possible.
> > > I'm not entirely sure what you are suggesting but it sounds like you
> > > simply want to pull upstream qemu and seabios for testing purposes? If
> > > so then I think there is nothing wrong with pulling these directly from
> > > their respective upstreams, so long as you clearly indicate this (and
> > > the version being tested) in any bug reports.
> > >
> > > Ian.
> > Thanks for reply.
> > To test latest upstream qemu and seabios version I already use debian packages
> > (latest stable version) or I change Config.mk of xen to point upstream gits
> > instead (for unstable version).
> > Based of my example of some months ago its seem that xen developers/testers
> > are using only xen git except rare cases, so I mean that xen gits of qemu and
> > seabios should pull from upstream gits most frequently.
> I think you are right, in fact I intend to update the QEMU tree for
> xen-unstable very soon, basing it on the latest release, 1.5.2.
Thanks.
I have a question also about enabling spice on xen's qemu compile.
Last year I propose to add it with 3 method, all rejected.
Newer distribution version have all spice prerequisite packages, so this 
option is quite worth for me.
libxl has already spice basic support and I started to post some patch 
to make it full features.
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