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

[Alexander Graf]

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.


Alex