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 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: [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 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 Blue Swirl
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Gleb Natapov 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 wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> >> >> How about having a generic Virtio-based mach

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 wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> How about having a generic Virtio-based machine for emulating a virtual > >> desktop ? > > > > I have a

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 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: [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 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] [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 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: [Qemu-devel] [kvmarm] [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: [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 g