[libvirt] [PATCH] RFC: qemu: add spice/virgl rendernode

Marc-André Lureau mlureau at redhat.com
Mon Feb 13 13:08:20 UTC 2017


Hi

----- Original Message -----
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 07:19:04AM -0500, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 03:51:48PM +0400, marcandre.lureau at redhat.com
> > > wrote:
> > > > From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau at redhat.com>
> > > > 
> > > > I am working on a WIP series to add QEMU Spice/virgl rendernode option.
> > > > Since rendernodes are not stable across reboots, I propose that QEMU
> > > > accepts also a PCI address (other bus types may be added in the
> > > > future).
> > > 
> > > Hmm, can you elaborate on this aspect ?  It feels like a parallel
> > > to saying NIC device names are not stable, so we should configure
> > > guests using PCI addresses instead of 'eth0', etc but we stuck with
> > > using NIC names in libvirt on the basis that you can create udev
> > > rules to ensure stable naming ?
> > > 
> > > So is there not a case to be made that if you want stable render
> > > device names when multiple NICs are present, then you should use
> > > udev to ensure a given device always maps to the same PCI dev.
> > 
> > I thought it was simpler to use a PCI address (do you expect users
> > to create udev rules for the GPUs?)
> 
> Well most users will only have 1 GPU so surely this won't be a problem
> in the common case.  Is it possible to get some stable naming rules into
> udev upstream though, so all distros get stable names by default

Optimus is getting more and more mainstream, see recent Fedora desktop effort (fwiw I have a t460p nouveau/i915). I don't think a random user of such hw/laptop should have to create udev rules.

I suppose systemd-udev could learn to create stable path with help from src/udev/udev-builtin-path_id.c. I will work on it. However, I have virt-manager code to lookup GPU infos/path, using libdrm, and it is unlikely that it will work with the udev rules. So I'll have to patch libdrm to support that too. 




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