Re: [PATCH] qemu: Support ram bar size for qxl devices

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> On 17.01.2013 20:35, Alon Levy wrote:
> > Adds a qxl-ram attribute globaly to the video.model element, that
> > changes
> > the resulting qemu command line only if video.type == "qxl".
> > 
> > That attribute gets a default value of 64*1024 only if model.type
> > is
> > "qxl". In effect not changing any xml or argv for non qxl devices.
> > 
> > For qxl devices a new property is set:
> > -global qxl-vga.ram_size=<ram>*1024
> > or
> > -global qxl.ram_size=<ram>*1024
> > 
> > For the main and secondary qxl devices respectively.
> > 
> > The default for the qxl ram bar is the same as the default for the
> > qxl
> > vram bar, 64*1024.
> > ---
> > I've added a qxl-ram attribute. There is no precedent for adding am
> > attribute
> > prefixed like this, so I'm open for any other suggestion on how to
> > do it.
> > 
> >  docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng                      |  9 +++-
> >  src/conf/domain_conf.c                             | 19 ++++++-
> >  src/conf/domain_conf.h                             |  1 +
> >  src/qemu/qemu_command.c                            | 58
> >  ++++++++++++++++++----
> >  .../qemuxml2argv-graphics-spice-compression.args   |  2 +-
> >  .../qemuxml2argv-graphics-spice-compression.xml    |  4 +-
> >  .../qemuxml2argv-graphics-spice-qxl-vga.args       |  2 +-
> >  .../qemuxml2argv-graphics-spice-qxl-vga.xml        |  4 +-
> >  .../qemuxml2argv-graphics-spice.args               |  2 +-
> >  .../qemuxml2argv-graphics-spice.xml                |  4 +-
> >  .../qemuxml2argv-video-device-pciaddr-default.args |  6 +--
> >  11 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> 
> Just one question - what is the difference between ram_size and
> vram_size? If the former is successor of the latter, I think we
> should
> be using the ram_size and drop vram_size and not pollute XML at all.
> However, if there's any difference we should document that. That is,
> every XML snippet being introduced must go hand in hand with
> extending
> docs/format*.html.in.

I'll add the docs. Just to be clear, ram_size is distinct from vram_size, both exist at the same time, so it is not a successor.

> 
> Michal
> 

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