Re: [PATCH V2 1/6] qemu: Remove vram attribute in some cases

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On 2014/7/24 17:37, Pavel Hrdina wrote:

>> ---
>>  src/conf/domain_conf.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
>>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
[...]
>> @@ -9474,9 +9471,19 @@ virDomainVideoDefParseXML(xmlNodePtr node,
>>      }
>>  
>>      if (vram) {
>> +        /* For type of kvm, vram attribute seems to be invalid
>> +         * for VIR_DOMAIN_VIDEO_TYPE_VMVGA. Shall we also need
>> +         * to add judge here? Will it affect other drivers? */
>> +        if (def->type == VIR_DOMAIN_VIDEO_TYPE_VGA ||
>> +            def->type == VIR_DOMAIN_VIDEO_TYPE_CIRRUS) {
>> +            virReportError(VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR, "%s",
>> +                           _("vram attribute is not supported "
>> +                             "for type of vga and cirrus"));
>> +            goto error;
>> +        }
>>          if (virStrToLong_ui(vram, NULL, 10, &def->vram) < 0) {
>>              virReportError(VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR,
>> -                           _("cannot parse video ram '%s'"), vram);
>> +                           _("cannot parse video vram '%s'"), vram);
>>              goto error;
>>          }
>>      } else {
>>
> 
> We cannot disable use of vram for VGA and CIRRUS because it would be
> a regression and all existing domains having this attribute in xml
> would not be loaded on libvirtd start. We have to accept the fact that
> the vram attribute could be defined for all current video types and
> for some of them it will be just ignored.
> 
> So don't return error if the vram is set for VGA and CIRRUS.
> The only possibility is to silently remove it for qemu in
> qemuDomainDevicePostParse function, but that will also requires
> updating all qemuxml2argv and qemuxml2xml tests.
> 
Thanks for your review.
You are right. In libvirt upgrade scenario, this patch will make a regression.
In this case , VM should be started successfully without vram in qemu
command line.

> Pavel
> 
> 
> .
> 


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