Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/4] xenconfig: fix spice mousemode and copypaste

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Fabio Fantoni wrote:
> 2015-05-09 0:00 GMT+02:00 Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@xxxxxxxx
> <mailto:jfehlig@xxxxxxxx>>:
>
>     From xl.cfg950 man page:
>
>     spiceagent_mouse=BOOLEAN
>     Whether SPICE agent is used for client mouse mode. The default is
>     true (1) (turn on)
>
>     spicevdagent=BOOLEAN
>     Enables spice vdagent. The Spice vdagent is an optional component for
>     enhancing user experience and performing guest-oriented management
>     tasks. Its features includes: client mouse mode (no need to grab
>     mouse by client, no mouse lag), automatic adjustment of screen
>     resolution, copy and paste (text and image) between client and domU.
>     It also requires vdagent service installed on domU o.s. to work.
>     The default is 0.
>
>     spice_clipboard_sharing=BOOLEAN
>     Enables Spice clipboard sharing (copy/paste). It requires spicevdagent
>     enabled. The default is false (0).
>
>     So if spiceagent_mouse is enabled (client mouse mode) or
>     spice_clipboard_sharing is enabled, spicevdagent must be enabled.
>     Along with this change, s/spicedvagent/spicevdagent, set
>     spiceagent_mouse correctly, and add a test for these spice
>     features.
>
>
> Thanks for your work in libvirt about improve/fix support for xen with
> spice.
> From a fast look to code seems there is spice usbredirection support
> missed, a feature that I think very useful:
> http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commitdiff;h=f5414ee57a17500e650ea11766474b11da940da2
> There are also other spice settings added for xen 4.6 (image
> compression and streaming video):
> http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commitdiff;h=bd71555985efc423b1a119b6a3177de855763453
> http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commitdiff;h=296c7f3284efe655d95a8ae045a5dc1a20d6fff0

Right, but those can be added in a follow-up patch.  To ease review, I
avoided adding support for all features in this patch.

> And also another important that you already know and accepted today:
> http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commit;h=161212ef02312c0681d2d809c8ff1e1f0ea6f6f9
> Latest version have also LIBXL_HAVE_QXL useful for libvirt.

Yes.

> I think is good add also qxl and usbredir to spice-features test or
> create a new one "full features".

Agreed.  A new test can be added when implementing the addition features
in a follow-up.  Do you have any interest in working on a libvirt patch
for these features?

Regards,
Jim

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