The QEMU machine vmport option allows to set the VMWare IO port
emulation. This emulation is useful for absolute pointer input when the
guest has vmware input drivers, and is enabled by default for kvm.
However it is unnecessary for Spice-enabled VM, since the agent already
handles absolute pointer and multi-monitors. Furthermore, it prevents
Spice from switching to relative input since the regular ps/2 pointer
driver is replaced by the vmware driver. It is thus advised to disable
vmport when using a Spice VM. This will permit the Spice client to
switch from absolute to relative pointer, as it may be required for
certain games or applications.
---
PS: the patch could be split in domain+docs+qemu+test
docs/formatdomain.html.in | 7 +-
docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng | 8 +++
src/conf/domain_conf.c | 9
src/conf/domain_conf.h | 1 +
src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 6 ++
src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h | 1 +
src/qemu/qemu_command.c| 13 +++
.../qemuxml2argv-machine-vmport-opt.args | 6 ++
.../qemuxml2argv-machine-vmport-opt.xml| 25 ++
tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 2 ++
10 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-machine-vmport-opt.args
create mode 100644 tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-machine-vmport-opt.xml
diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
index be35c82..51d74d1 100644
--- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in
+++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
@@ -124,7 +124,12 @@
and codemachine/code referring to the machine
type. The a href=formatcaps.htmlCapabilities XML/a
provides details on allowed values for
-these. span class=sinceSince 0.0.1/span/dd
+these. span class=sinceSince 0.0.1/span
+The optional codevmport/code attribute (accepted values
+are codeyes/code and codeno/code), sets the
+emulation of VMWare IO port, for vmmouse etc. span
+class=sinceSince 1.2.14/span
+ /dd
dtcodeloader/code/dt
ddThe optional codeloader/code tag refers to a firmware blob
used to assist the domain creation process. It is used by Xen
diff --git a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
index ebd9299..da3c8c0 100644
--- a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
+++ b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
@@ -339,6 +339,14 @@
ref name=hvmaarch64/
/choice
/optional
+ optional
+attribute name=vmport
+ choice
+valueyes/value
+valueno/value
+ /choice
+/attribute
+ /optional
valuehvm/value
/element
/define
diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
index ae7d8df..d12598b 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
@@ -14218,6 +14218,15 @@ virDomainDefParseXML(xmlDocPtr xml,
goto error;
}
+tmp = virXPathString(string(./os/type[1]/@vmport), ctxt);
+if (tmp
+(def-os.vmport = virTristateBoolTypeFromString(tmp)) = 0) {
+virReportError(VIR_ERR_OS_TYPE,
+ _(unknown vmport value: %s), tmp);
+goto error;
+}
+VIR_FREE(tmp);
+
/*
* Booting options for different OS types
*
diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.h b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
index 9d314fa..4cc2ff7 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.h
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
@@ -1767,6 +1767,7 @@ struct _virDomainOSDef {
char *bootloader;
char *bootloaderArgs;
int smbios_mode;
+int vmport; /* enum virTristateBool */
virDomainBIOSDef bios;
};
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
index ccf22f0..f5481d3 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
@@ -279,6 +279,8 @@ VIR_ENUM_IMPL(virQEMUCaps, QEMU_CAPS_LAST,
qxl.vgamem_mb,
qxl-vga.vgamem_mb,
pc-dimm,
+
+ machine-vmport-opt, /* 185 */
);
@@ -3239,6 +3241,10 @@ virQEMUCapsInitQMPMonitor(virQEMUCapsPtr qemuCaps,
if (qemuCaps-version = 1003000)
virQEMUCapsSet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_MACHINE_USB_OPT);
+/* vmport option is supported v2.2.0 onwards */
+if (qemuCaps-version = 2002000)
+virQEMUCapsSet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_MACHINE_VMPORT_OPT);
+
/* WebSockets were introduced between 1.3.0 and 1.3.1 */
if (qemuCaps-version = 1003001)
virQEMUCapsSet(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_VNC_WEBSOCKET);
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h
index c7b1ac7..48c8f96 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ typedef enum {
QEMU_CAPS_QXL_VGAMEM = 182, /* -device
