[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#776742: Bug#776742: xen-utils-common: no support for VGA Passthrough

[Ian Campbell]

On Sat, 2015-01-31 at 19:18 -0600, Brian Paterni wrote:
>       * Disable qemu-traditional and rombios support using new configure option
>         instead of by patching. No need to build-depend on ipxe any more.

Not that this isn't when qemu-trad was disabled in the Debian packaging,
just switching the mechanism by which it is disabled to one supporte dby
upstream.

> has there been any movement upstream to
> add support for gfx_passthru in what is known as the 'qemu-xen'
> device-model? (honest question... I'm not too familiar with qemu/xen
> development) Would it be too much to ask for the re-enablement of
> 'qemu-traditional' in the meantime?

I'm not following very closely, so I don't know the exact state, but
someone from Intel has been posting patches against upstream qemu and
the Xen tools to enable gfx passthru with upstream qemu in the last few
of weeks (check the upstream xen-devel archives), I would expect them to
land in Xen 4.6, but I don't know what their exact scope is (i.e. if
they are Intel GPU specific etc, I don't know).

Ian.