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Howto on setting up multiseat for guests. Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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					multiseat howto (with some multihead coverage)
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					host side
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					First you must compile qemu with a user interface supporting
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					multihead/multiseat and input event routing.  Right now this list is
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					pretty short: sdl2.
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					  ./configure --enable-sdl --with-sdlabi=2.0
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					Next put together the qemu command line:
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					qemu	-enable-kvm -usb $memory $disk $whatever \
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						-display sdl \
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						-vga std \
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						-device usb-tablet
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					That is it for the first head, which will use the standard vga, the
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					standard ps/2 keyboard (implicitly there) and the usb-tablet.  Now the
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					additional switches for the second head:
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						-device pci-bridge,addr=12.0,chassis_nr=2,id=head.2 \
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						-device secondary-vga,bus=head.2,addr=02.0,id=video.2 \
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						-device nec-usb-xhci,bus=head.2,addr=0f.0,id=usb.2 \
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						-device usb-kbd,bus=usb.2.0,port=1,display=video.2 \
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						-device usb-tablet,bus=usb.2.0,port=2,display=video.2
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					This places a pci bridge in slot 12, connects a display adapter and
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					xhci (usb) controller to the bridge.  Then it adds a usb keyboard and
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					usb mouse, both connected to the xhci and linked to the display.
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					The "display=video2" sets up the input routing.  Any input coming from
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					the window which belongs to the video.2 display adapter will be routed
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					to these input devices.
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					guest side
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					You need a pretty recent linux guest.  systemd with loginctl.  kernel
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					3.14+ with CONFIG_DRM_BOCHS enabled.  Fedora 20 will do.  Must be
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					fully updated for the new kernel though, i.e. the live iso doesn't cut
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					it.
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					Now we'll have to configure the guest.  Boot and login.  By default
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					all devices belong to seat0.  You can use "loginctl seat-status seat0"
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					to list them all (and to get the sysfs paths for cut+paste).  Now
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					we'll go assign all pci devices connected the pci bridge in slot 12 to
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					a new head:
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					loginctl attach seat-qemu \
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						 /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/0000:01:02.0/drm/card1
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					loginctl attach seat-qemu \
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						 /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/0000:01:02.0/graphics/fb1
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					loginctl attach seat-qemu \
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						 /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/0000:01:0f.0/usb2
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					Use "loginctl seat-status seat-qemu" to check the result.  It isn't
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					needed to assign the usb devices to the head individually, assigning a
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					usb (root) hub will automatically assign all usb devices connected to
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					it too.
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					BTW: loginctl writes udev rules to /etc/udev/rules.d to make these
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					device assignments permanent, so you need to do this only once.
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					Now simply restart gdm (rebooting will do too), and a login screen
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					should show up on the second head.
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					Enjoy!
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					--
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					Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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