Re: xentools depends on X11?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 07:15:28AM +0200, Lars-Johan Liman wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I just tried to build a minimal Xen dom0. I was somewhat surprised to
> learn that you cannot install xentools without dragging in "all of" X11,
> as it depends on some X11 lib. Is this really a) necessary, b)
> desirable?

It may be required for virutal framebuffer support (actually, the vnc
server backend). virutal framebuffer support is a hard requirement for
HVM, and is nice for PV too.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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