qemu-kvm-1.2.0+noroms cannot be rebuilt with spice and usb redirection enabled at a time

[Boris Derzhavets]

View:-
https://launchpad.net/~bderzhavets/+archive/lib-usbredir89

Fragment from debian/control

Source: qemu-kvm
Section: misc
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Michael Tokarev <email address hidden>
Uploaders: Guido Günther <email address hidden>, Jan Lübbe <email address hidden>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8), pkg-config, texinfo, python,
 libaio-dev,
 libasound2-dev,
 libattr1-dev,
 libbluetooth-dev,
 libbrlapi-dev,
 libcap-dev,
 libcurl4-gnutls-dev,
 libglib2.0-dev,
 libgnutls-dev,
 libjpeg-dev,
 libncurses5-dev,
 libpci-dev,
 libpulse-dev,
 libpng12-dev,
 libspice-server-dev (>= 0.10.1),
 libspice-protocol-dev (>= 0.10.1),
 librados-dev, librbd-dev,
 libsasl2-dev,
 libsdl1.2-dev,
 libusbredirhost-dev,
 linux-libc-dev (>= 2.6.32),
 uuid-dev,
 xfslibs-dev,
 zlib1g-dev,
 device-tree-compiler [powerpc],
 libfdt-dev [powerpc]

Fragment from build log :-
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/118497302/buildlog_ubuntu-quantal-amd64.qemu-kvm_1.2.0%2Bnoroms-1ubuntu4_BUILDING.txt.gz

mkdir -p build/
cd build && ../configure \
  --with-pkgversion="qemu-kvm-1.2.0+noroms-1ubuntu4, Debian" \
  --target-list="x86_64-softmmu i386-softmmu x86_64-linux-user i386-linux-user" \
  --prefix=/usr \
  --with-confsuffix=/qemu \
  --datadir=/usr/share \
  --sysconfdir=/etc \
  --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
  --extra-cflags="-g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wall" \
  --extra-ldflags="-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro" \
  --disable-strip \
  --disable-xen \
  --disable-guest-agent \
                --enable-spice \
                --enable-usb-redir \
  --audio-drv-list="pa,alsa,sdl,oss" \
  --enable-docs \
  --audio-card-list="ac97 es1370 sb16 cs4231a adlib gus hda" \
  `sed 's/#.*//' ../debian/optional-features` \
  --enable-kvm --disable-blobs \
   \
   || { echo == config.log ==; cat config.log; echo == config.log end ==; exit 1; }
Install prefix /usr
BIOS directory /usr/share/qemu
......
spice support yes
rbd support yes
xfsctl support yes
nss used no
usb net redir no
OpenGL support no
libiscsi support no
build guest agent no
seccomp support no
......

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Since neither spice nor usb redirection is currently enabled in the package, and since spice cannot be enabled in qemu-kvm, this is not a bug in the qemu-kvm package.

Does the build succeed with the git upstream head from qemu.git (not qemu-kvm.git)? If not, then we can mark this as affecting QEMU. If so, then I'd recommend using that source for now. As soon as R opens, we intend to switch to that source as well.

[Boris Derzhavets (bderzhavets)]

I believe spice can be enabled in the qemu-kvm package:-

Fragment from build log :-
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/118497302/buildlog_ubuntu-quantal-amd64.qemu-kvm_1.2.0%2Bnoroms-1ubuntu4_BUILDING.txt.gz

. . . . . . .

--disable-guest-agent \
                --enable-spice \
                --enable-usb-redir \
  --audio-drv-list="pa,alsa,sdl,oss" \
  --enable-docs \
  --audio-card-list="ac97 es1370 sb16 cs4231a adlib gus hda" \
  `sed 's/#.*//' ../debian/optional-features` \
  --enable-kvm --disable-blobs \
   \
   || { echo == config.log ==; cat config.log; echo == config.log end ==; exit 1; }
Install prefix /usr
BIOS directory /usr/share/qemu
......

spice support yes <=
rbd support yes
xfsctl support yes
nss used no
usb net redir no <=
OpenGL support no
libiscsi support no
build guest agent no
seccomp support no

.......

Your statement sounds like qemu-kvm 1.2.0 upstream doesn't support spice in meantime ? (1.1 did , it was tested on precise)

[Boris Derzhavets (bderzhavets)]

I keep in mind only ppa builds using UNIVERSE

[Dave Walker (davewalker)]

@Boris, Can you outline the exact issue? Do you have a suggestion for change?

Thanks

[Boris Derzhavets (bderzhavets)]

I cannot build qemu-kvm 1.2.0 with spice usb redirection. It worked for 1.1

[Boris Derzhavets (bderzhavets)]

@Serge,

Current version of usbredir (ubuntu) is 0.4.3 ( matches debian sid)
qemu-kvm 1.2.0 seems to require usbredir 0.5.2.
I cannot file debian bug to upgrade usbredir package.

Thanks.

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

@Boris,

once R opens up, please feel free to file a bug against usbredir to merged from upstream (if debian hasn't bumped their version yet).

In the meantime you can of course do so yourself in your ppa.

Note that in the next few weeks I will be playing with the debian qemu experimental tree, which is going to replace our qemu-kvm in R. You might find hints as to how they are compiling (since I assume they link against ubredir) there.

I recognize that it would be good to have a communications channel for this. Perhaps we should set up a qemu-devs (or somesuch) launchpad group and project and mailing list, for discussing alternate builds?