Spice Qemu Builder

Short story

Build and run 'qemu' with 'spice' from source on the fly.

A bit longer

To build and run 'qemu' with 'spice' is not easy. That involves many dependences and configurations. Especially while you have system-installed 'qemu' running.

So, here comes 'Spice Qemu Builder' ('sqb'), it is a set of helper scripts to automatically do the follwing:

• install build depend
• get code from offical repository
• get 'fedora base cloud image' as test image
• autogen/configure/build qemu with spice in local dir, touch nothing in system
• run test VM using our hand-made 'qemu'
• open spice console to the VM, if you have 'spice-gtk-tools' installed

ENV

At this time, 'sqb' only rocks on CentOs/Fedora. Porting to other distro should also by easy.

Show me howto

1. ./install_build_dep.${Distro} # '1-shot step', install the build deps
2. ./autogen.sh # '1-shot setp', git clone for src code , and download test image
3. make spiceqemu # for sure, you can hack somewhere in src code, and build&run to verify.
4. ./test_run_qemu.sh # as much asyou like :)

Good luck :)