[Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] libxl: Implement basic video device selection

[Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This started as an investigation into an issue where libvirt (using the
libxl driver) and the Xen host, like an old couple, could not agree on
who is responsible for selecting the VNC port to use.

Things usually (and a bit surprisingly) did work because, just like that
old couple, they had the same idea on what to do by default. However it
was possible that this ended up in a big argument.

The problem is that display information exists in two different places:
in the vfbs list and in the build info. And for launching the device model,
only the latter is used. But that never gets initialized from libvirt. So
Xen allows the device model to select a default port while libvirt thinks
it has told Xen that this is done by libvirt (though the vfbs config).

While fixing that, I made a stab at actually evaluating the configuration
of the video device. So that it is now possible to at least decide between
a Cirrus or standard VGA emulation and to modify the VRAM within certain
limits using libvirt.

[v2: Check return code of VIR_STRDUP and fix indentation]
[v3: Split out VRAM fixup and return error for unsupported video type]

Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 src/libxl/libxl_conf.c |   68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 68 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c b/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
index b7fed7f..2b5c469 100644
--- a/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
+++ b/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
@@ -1304,6 +1304,64 @@ libxlMakeCapabilities(libxl_ctx *ctx)
     return NULL;
 }
 
+static int
+libxlSetBuildGraphics(virDomainDefPtr def, libxl_domain_config *d_config)
+{
+    libxl_domain_build_info *b_info = &d_config->b_info;
+
+    /*
+     * Take the first defined video device (graphics card) to display
+     * on the first graphics device (display).
+     * Right now only type and vram info is used and anything beside
+     * type xen and vga is mapped to cirrus.
+     */
+    if (def->nvideos) {
+        switch (def->videos[0]->type) {
+            case VIR_DOMAIN_VIDEO_TYPE_VGA:
+            case VIR_DOMAIN_VIDEO_TYPE_XEN:
+                b_info->u.hvm.vga.kind = LIBXL_VGA_INTERFACE_TYPE_STD;
+                break;
+            case VIR_DOMAIN_VIDEO_TYPE_CIRRUS:
+                b_info->u.hvm.vga.kind = LIBXL_VGA_INTERFACE_TYPE_CIRRUS;
+                break;
+            default:
+                virReportError(VIR_ERR_CONFIG_UNSUPPORTED,
+                               "%s",
+                               _("video type not supported by libxl"));
+                return -1;
+        }
+        b_info->video_memkb = def->videos[0]->vram ?
+                              def->videos[0]->vram :
+                              LIBXL_MEMKB_DEFAULT;
+    } else {
+        libxl_defbool_set(&b_info->u.hvm.nographic, 1);
+    }
+
+    /*
+     * When making the list of displays, only VNC and SDL types were
+     * taken into account. So it seems sensible to connect the default
+     * video device to the first in the vfb list.
+     */
+    if (d_config->num_vfbs) {
+        libxl_device_vfb *vfb0 = &d_config->vfbs[0];
+
+        b_info->u.hvm.vnc = vfb0->vnc;
+        if (VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.vnc.listen, vfb0->vnc.listen) < 0)
+            return -1;
+        if (VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.vnc.passwd, vfb0->vnc.passwd) < 0)
+            return -1;
+        b_info->u.hvm.sdl = vfb0->sdl;
+        if (VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.sdl.display, vfb0->sdl.display) < 0)
+            return -1;
+        if (VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.sdl.xauthority, vfb0->sdl.xauthority) < 0)
+            return -1;
+        if (VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.keymap, vfb0->keymap) < 0)
+            return -1;
+    }
+
+    return 0;
+}
+
 int
 libxlBuildDomainConfig(libxlDriverPrivatePtr driver,
                        virDomainObjPtr vm, libxl_domain_config *d_config)
@@ -1331,6 +1389,16 @@ libxlBuildDomainConfig(libxlDriverPrivatePtr driver,
     if (libxlMakePCIList(def, d_config) < 0)
         return -1;
 
+    /*
+     * Now that any potential VFBs are defined, it is time to update the
+     * build info with the data of the primary display. Some day libxl
+     * might implicitely do so but as it does not right now, better be
+     * explicit.
+     */
+    if (d_config->c_info.type == LIBXL_DOMAIN_TYPE_HVM)
+        if (libxlSetBuildGraphics(def, d_config) < 0)
+            return -1;
+
     d_config->on_reboot = def->onReboot;
     d_config->on_poweroff = def->onPoweroff;
     d_config->on_crash = def->onCrash;
-- 
1.7.9.5


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