Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v2 00/16] Add vhost-user-gpu support

v1: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2019-June/msg00102.html This is v2 of Marc-André's series with minor changes. I'm not taking over this series, I just fixed these as part of the patch rebase so I can review it :) Changes since v1: - rebase to master - if test file build by dropping LDADDS usage - syntax-check issues: * use #pragma once * if () bracket issues * jump label indent issues * error message %s usage * size_t for loops I didn't know much about vhost-user-gpu before this series, here's what I've learned. vhost-user is a generic mechanism that allows implementing virtio device dataplane handling in a separate userspace process. vhost-user-gpu here notably moves the virgl 3d handling out of the main qemu process. The external process will be /usr/libexec/vhost-user-gpu, which comes from qemu.git contrib/vhost-user-gpu code, first released in qemu-4.1. Part of this series deals with discovering the location on disk of the vhost-user-gpu binary, and what capabilities it provides. This uses a similar mechanism to firmware.json, described in qemu docs/interop/vhost-user.json https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/docs/interop/vhost-user.json qemu 4.1 ships a 50-qemu-gpu.json to match. I believe virtio-fs will use a similar mechanism when it lands in upstream qemu, as virtiofsd is a separate process that communicates with qemu over vhost-user. For a bit more background on vhost-user-gpu process handling and the json interop motivation, here's some of the qemu discussion: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-08/msg02610.html https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-09/msg00807.html For this series, the XML to enable this is: <video model='virtio' vhostuser='yes'> <acceleration accel3d='yes' rendernode='/path/to/rendernode'/> </video>