[libvirt] [PATCH 1/1] Support for RDP

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Apr 23 12:47:17 UTC 2009


On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 02:41:25PM +0200, Pritesh Kothari wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> > We don't currently have any explicit representation of a video card
> > device. The <graphics> tag is really representing the host I/O
> > layer, covering video, mouse, keyboard (and potentially audio
> > too).
> 
> I didn't get you here? i mean there is a seperate virDomainSoundDefPtr, virDomainInputDefPtr, etc?

I mean in terms of how this is exposed to an end user. 

VNC provides interaction for video, keyboard & mouse.

SDL provides interaction for video, keyboard, mouse & audio

RDP is similar.


There are still the explict config sections for how video,
mouse, sounds, etc are exposed to the guest OS.

> > I think we need to add an explicit tag to represent video devices
> > real soon. At very least we need to be able to indicate the type
> > of video card - QEMU supports 4 already vga, cirrus, vmwarevga
> > and xenfb. We probably also need to be able to indicate whether
> > a video card supports multiple monitors / outputs, and the amont
> > of Video RAM, etc.
> >
> > One random idea would be to add
> >
> >    <video>
> >       <model type='cirrus' ram='500'/>
> >    </video>
> 
> does it means the graphics tag is no more and is replaced with video tag? or video tag is added in addition to graphics tag?

We'd have both - the <video> tag explicitly for things related
to the video adapter device.  The <graphics> tag for the host
side I/O layer config, be it VNC, RDP or SDL.

> in any case how about adding "multihead" and "3Daccel" to it and renaming ram to vram, something like this:
> 
>     <video>
>        <model type='cirrus' vram='500' multihead='2' 3Daccel='yes'/>
>     </video>

Sure, vram seems fine. I think i'd call multihead 'monitors' or 'heads'.

Isn't 3D support implied by the type of graphics card emulated ?
eg cirrus is a 2d only card, so it seems like 3Daccel is redundant.
Similarly if the graphics model were a 3d card.

> 
> > I've not looked at this in huge detail yet. I'm wondering whether we need
> > to expose it or not ? Is it something that's commonly used, or neccessary
> > to configure per VM ?   For QEMU and Xen, the VNC auth type is jsut
> > configured per-host in the global Xen or libvirt QEMU config file for the
> > host. So we don't bother to expose it in the XML
> >
> > One idea might we to make the auth stuff a child element of '<graphics>'
> > so we don't start adding huge numbers of attributes to the main elemnt
> 
> Yes it per VM feature and generally exposed by any RDP server, so not specific to VirtualBox, but a general case. i think the earlier mail give details of it.
> 
> regarding the child element it is ok to have it as child element.
> 
> Regards
> Pritesh

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