Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 16:50:18 +0200 From: Roger Pau =?utf-8?B?TW9ubsOp?= <roger.pau@citrix.com> To: Brian Buhrow <buhrow@nfbcal.org> Cc: <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The vnclisten parameter is ignored with hvm domains under xen-4.12.1 and FreeBSD-12.0 Message-ID: <20200901145018.GK734@Air-de-Roger> In-Reply-To: <202008311459.07VExDnt001452@nfbcal.org> References: <20200831075009.GE734@Air-de-Roger> <202008311459.07VExDnt001452@nfbcal.org>
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On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 07:59:13AM -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote: > hello Roger. Yes, I think an improvement to the xl.cfg man page would > be helpful. Your additional notes clarifying my message are also useful in > helping to craft what that modified man page might look like. In > particular, the section of the man page that says that vnc parameters wil > be picked up by hvm guests implies that they'll be picked up from within > the vfb spec. that's simply not the case. And, as you point out, it's > possible, though not probable, to have both an emulated graphics card on an > hvm guest and a pv graphics card on a hvm guest, both potentially sending > their vnc output to different IP addresses. That's not at all clear from > the man page as I read it. > I'll try to come up with some potential language and send it along to > you and this list. If you think it helps, then it could be submitted as an > upstream patch. Sure, I would certainly aim to have this upstream, as I don't carry patches to the Xen packages unless they are backports from upstream commits. If you can provide the adjusted text I can prepare a patch and send upstream, or feel free to do it yourself if you want to :). Thanks, Roger.
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