Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] guest agent: qemu-ga daemon

[Alexander Graf]

On 23.07.2011, at 21:12, Anthony Liguori wrote:

> On 07/23/2011 01:35 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> 
>> On 23.07.2011, at 18:49, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> 
>>> On 07/23/2011 11:43 AM, Michael Roth wrote:
>>>> On 07/23/2011 11:10 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>>> On 07/23/2011 11:06 AM, Michael Roth wrote:
>>>>>> On 07/23/2011 05:07 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 20.07.2011, at 22:19, Michael Roth wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> This is the actual guest daemon, it listens for requests over a
>>>>>>>> virtio-serial/isa-serial/unix socket channel and routes them through
>>>>>>>> to dispatch routines, and writes the results back to the channel in
>>>>>>>> a manner similar to QMP.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> A shorthand invocation:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> qemu-ga -d
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Is equivalent to:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> qemu-ga -m virtio-serial -p /dev/virtio-ports/org.qemu.guest_agent.0 \
>>>>>>>> -f /var/run/qemu-ga.pid -d
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Michael Roth<address@hidden>
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> A rebase on top of current HEAD gave me the following on openSUSE 11.1
>>>>>>> PPC:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> address@hidden:/home/agraf/release/qemu>  make
>>>>>>> CC qemu-ga.o
>>>>>>> qemu-ga.c:40: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘GSocket’
>>>>> 
>>>>> GIO is fairly new. It may not be available on openSUSE.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Mike, you probably need to do a configure test for GIO and if it's not
>>>>> present, don't build qemu-ga.
>>>> 
>>>> It should've failed the glib probe in that case. I think we might need a
>>>> compile test to catch this GSocket issue.
>>> 
>>> Indeed.  Alex, can you help debug this a bit?  We can tr to setup a SUSE 
>>> system.
>> 
>> It's not only about SUSE vs. non-SUSE. This was 11.1 (ancient, but latest 
>> ppc release) on PowerPC.
>> 
>>> Can you confirm that gio is actually present?
>> 
>> Sure, tell me how :). I'm fairly ignorant when it comes to g* stuff.
> 
> pkg-config --modversion gio-2.0


address@hidden:~> pkg-config --modversion gio-2.0
2.18.2


Alex