On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 01:15:20PM +0200, Alon Levy wrote: > 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 >
btw, if this is the case, the actual problem is that -vga qxl (or -device qxl) doesn't complain it can't find it's vgabios file, and in that case would be nice if someone opened a bug O:) > > > > >> > > >>>> > > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> 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
