The vnclisten parameter is ignored with hvm domains under xen-4.12.1 and FreeBSD-12.0

[Roger Pau Monné]

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.