On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 12:06:23PM +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote: > W dniu 29.01.2011 11:02, Alon Levy pisze: > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:56:16AM +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote: > >> 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? > > Just run virt-manager, then ps xaw | grep qemu and pick it from there :) > > > > I think this is correct, but I'm no expert on these parameters: (i.e. > > this is what I'm running) > > > > "-net nic,macaddr=00:00:11:11:22:00,model=virtio" > > '-drive file="%(image)s",index=0,media=disk,cache=writeback,if=virtio' > > > > OK, it seems like I hit another issue. I updated to libvirt from > virt-preview repo and qemu from bug 664192. Then I edited the domain xml > to enable qxl graphics and spice (xml attached for convenience). It isn't. Your previous emails didn't have attachments as well. Maybe they are being stripped somewhere along the way?
> The problem - virsh start windows attempts to add -spice > port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing, which fails due to wrong > addr parameter. I take that out, getting: > > QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=spice /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M fedora-13 -enable-kvm -m > 1024 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name windows -uuid > a5a9cf48-603e-5795-ba0f-b5692ce2d93d -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev > socket,id=monitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/windows.monitor,server,nowait > -mon chardev=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=localtime -boot c -drive > if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device > ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -drive > file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/windows.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,boot=on,format=raw > -device > virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0 > -netdev tap,fd=42,id=hostnet0 -device > virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:6a:d1:82,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 > -chardev pty,id=serial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=serial0 -usb -device > usb-tablet,id=input0 -spice port=5900,disable-ticketing -vga qxl -device > AC97,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -device > virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 > > and qemu starts, but when I connect to it using > > spicec -h localhost -p 5900 > > all I can see is black screen. This sounds like missing vgabios. Try running without -spice (but with -vga qxl) , is it still black? you can workaround this by adding "-L <qemu_dir>/pc-bios" and making sure that directory contains vgabios-qxl.bin > > >> > >>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> 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
