[CentOS-virt] xen and spice problem

[George Dunlap]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Christoph <mangel at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 2015-10-04 17:50, schrieb Mark Pryor:
>>
>> http://107.185.144.55/xen/cent7/dom0/RPMS/stable-4.6/mock/ [1]
>>
>> above is a build of upstream xen with this `configure` including spice
>> support:
>> ./configure --enable-systemd --prefix=/usr --enable-xsmpolicy
>> --enable-ocamltools \
>>  --libdir=%{_libdir} --enable-efi \
>>  --with-extra-qemuu-configure-args="--enable-spice --enable-usb-redir"
>>
>> there is no associated libvirt build
>> Included are patches up to the HEAD of staging-4.6, so its basically
>> rc5.
>> --
>>
>> PryMar56
>
>
> why is the spice support not in the 'offical' xen centos7 repo built in?

Historically, because it wasn't available.  Now, simply because it's
off by default and before now nobody had asked for it to be enabled.

The Virt SIG is a community effort -- adding a configure option and
rebuilding is no problem, but the Virt SIG will need help testing /
working out bugs in this feature if it's going to be available going
forward.

If you're up for helping test it / work out any bugs, I can rebuild it
with the above arguments today.

 -George