[PATCH] libxl: Implement basic video device selection

[Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Re-pushing this as the old thread got rather stale. Some of the
VFB setup went in a bug fix. Not sure I missed a detail in rebasing
bug the keyboard setting may be the only thing missing...

-Stefan

[v2: Check return code of VIR_STRDUP and fix indentation]
[v3: Split out VRAM fixup and return error for unsupported video type]
[v4: Re-arrange code and move VFB setup into libxlMakeVfbList]
[v5: Rebased against head which already had some VFB setup code]

>From b3ff8f4c658d29f15e673af88b9ae2fdfa3c1317 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:01:18 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] libxl: Implement basic video device selection

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.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 src/libxl/libxl_conf.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c b/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
index acba69c..2727230 100644
--- a/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
+++ b/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
@@ -1200,6 +1200,8 @@ libxlMakeVfbList(virPortAllocatorPtr graphicsports,
             if (VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.sdl.xauthority, vfb.sdl.xauthority) < 0)
                 goto error;
         }
+        if (VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.keymap, vfb.keymap) < 0)
+            goto error;
     }
 
     return 0;
@@ -1462,6 +1464,45 @@ libxlMakeCapabilities(libxl_ctx *ctx)
     return NULL;
 }
 
+static int
+libxlMakeVideo(virDomainDefPtr def, libxl_domain_config *d_config)
+{
+    libxl_domain_build_info *b_info = &d_config->b_info;
+
+    if (d_config->c_info.type != LIBXL_DOMAIN_TYPE_HVM)
+        return 0;
+
+    /*
+     * 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);
+    }
+
+    return 0;
+}
+
 int
 libxlBuildDomainConfig(virPortAllocatorPtr graphicsports,
                        virDomainDefPtr def,
@@ -1488,6 +1529,15 @@ libxlBuildDomainConfig(virPortAllocatorPtr graphicsports,
     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 (libxlMakeVideo(def, d_config) < 0)
+        return -1;
+
     d_config->on_reboot = libxlActionFromVirLifecycle(def->onReboot);
     d_config->on_poweroff = libxlActionFromVirLifecycle(def->onPoweroff);
     d_config->on_crash = libxlActionFromVirLifecycleCrash(def->onCrash);
-- 
1.9.1

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