W dniu 2011-01-29 10:47, Alon Levy pisze:
> 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.

I will try with the packages from the virt-preview repo maybe that will
help.

> 
>> 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.

IIRC it keeps it in the domain xml file wherever that is stored. In that
case, what would be the command line to enable virtio disk and network?

>>
>>>>
>>>> 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

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