On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 09:54:37PM +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote: > W dniu 28.01.2011 21:06, Alon Levy pisze: > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 08:48:06PM +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote: > >> W dniu 28.01.2011 15:32, Alon Levy pisze: > >>> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:45:07AM +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> I wanted to try spice on Fedora 14. I have a Win7 Pro 32bit image which > >>>> was created with virt manager. I later added virtio network and drive to > >>>> it, installing drivers in the guest as well. > >>>> The problem is that if I try to use this machine as per F14 wiki, i.e.: > >>>> qemu /var/lib/libvirt/images/windows.img -usbdevice tablet -soundhw ac97 > >>>> -vga qxl -spice port=5930,password=asd -enable-kvm > >>>> the windows guest will BSOD during boot (note that I need to do this as > >>>> su due to the way how virt-manager sets permissions). > >>>> Is this issue known? What info could I provide to help resolving this? > >>> > >>> So which version do you have, 0.7.2? > >> > >> I tried both the version from f14 updates and from f14 preview repo. > >> Neither of them works. > >> > >>> does the vm boot normally when booting without spice? > >> > >> Yes, I can boot the machine via the virt-manager just fine. > >> > >> does the vm have qxl driver installed already? > >> > >> IIRC it does not. Where I can downlad such driver, and would it be OK to > >> install it while booted via virt-manager with no spice? > >> > > If you didn't install it it wouldn't have, the driver isn't part of win7 > > install or available via updates or something. But actually I don't want you > > to install it, I mean it might help (so you might want to try that - it's > > available at http://www.spice-space.org/download.html) but this means the > > problem is with the qxl device vga emulation. (I still have no clue) > > I'm not sure how to install the driver with the device not present I'm > afraid...
My bad, I souldn't have suggested that, I didn't understand. I don't know either btw, wish I did. > > > > >>> can you give the bsod screenshot (from monitor in qemu you can do > >>> screendump <filename.ppm>)? > >> > >> http://belegdol.fedorapeople.org/spicebsod.png > > > > How much memory do you give the vm? it seems like you are giving it the > > default. Could you try enlarging that? I'm just saying this because > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326679 > > > > Looks like you were right. In virt-manager I gave it 1 GB, which was > enough. But when I added -m 1596 to the command line spice also started > to work. Unfortunately, it brought the machine to crawl since I only > have 2 GB physical ram in this laptop. I run win7 32 bit win7 vm's with -m 1024. I'm not running F14, but git (actually some strange hybrid), so I can't be sure it's exactly the same. > By the way, is the configuration made with virt-manager respected when > you run qemu from the command line? To me it seemed like virtio harddisk > was gone since windows was looking for a driver for a qemu harddrive or > something along these lines. It shouldn't be. I'm not even sure where virt-manager keeps it's configuration. > > >> > >> I hope this will make it more clear what I am trying to accomplish, or > >> show where I am doing the wrong thing. > > > > It certainly helps, thanks for taking the time to report this. > > > > No problem. > > Cheers, > Julian _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
