On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 02:53:28PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 03:34:37PM +0200, Erik Skultety wrote: > > See the RFC here: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2018-May/msg02218.html > > > > Since RFC: > > - split graphics 'gl' to a standalone structure since it's now SPICE, SDL, > > *and* VNC that will support it > > > > - egl-headless support for VNC, since VNC doesn't support OpenGL natively like > > SPICE does > > > > - added a new attribute 'native' for spice which will instruct libvirt to use > > '-display egl-headless' instead of libvirt trying to figure this on out by > > itself, since egl-headless might have other uses besides mdev with VNC > > Can you elaborate on this part, as it feels a bit odd to me. > > Currently -display accepts vnc or spice or sdl or gtk or none > > Each of these -display options corresponds to a different <graphics type=XXX/> > element in libvirt XML, except 'none' which corresponds to no <graphics> at > all. > > We already allow multiple <graphics> elements to turn on say both SPICE and > VNC at once. > > So why would we want to treat egl-headless differently as an attribute under > the SPICE graphics, as opposed to just having <graphics type=egl-headless> > as a thing in its own right. Egl-headless doesn't make sense on its own, neither does it make sense with anything else but SPICE and VNC. And since we're talking about dri render nodes, I figured it would be better to design this as an attribute to the gl element rather than a standalone element. Erik -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list