On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:58:04AM -0800, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: > On 11/09/2011 12:51 PM, Alon Levy wrote: >
Todd, Sorry for the OT, but I'm really having a hard time reading your emails, I'm using mutt and to read html I pipe it through lynx, it's hard to see what is new and what is old. What are your current problems? Alon > On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 11:07:57AM -0800, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: > > Hi All, > > Scientific Linux 6.2 x64 > host: kvm > guest: XP-Pro x32 > spice 0.8.x > > I give up. I have Googl'ed my fingers off on this one. How > do I install the virtio serial device in my guest with virt-manager? > > I see serial devices to add, but what type and what is the > path to the device? Am I even looking at the right serial devices? > > The serial device should appear in other devices (along with the cpus) > in device manager. There is a link for a driver on the dowload page of > spice: > > [1]http://spice-space.org/download.html > > under "Windows binaries:", current link is > [2]http://spice-space.org/download/binaries/virtio-serial_20110725.zip > which looks relatively recent. > > I don't remember the upstream location for the drivers, I'll try to > find it and update, but I think those should be good, let me know if > they aren't. > > Note that this is not the serial device you should also have in the vm, > i.e. COM1, but a different device. > > Alon > > > Very frustrated and confused, > -T > _______________________________________________ > > > My revisions: > > $ rpm -qa \*spice\* > spice-server-0.8.0-1.el6.x86_64 > spice-client-0.8.0-2.el6.x86_64 > spice-protocol-0.8.0-1.el6.noarch > # rpm -qa \*vdagent\* > spice-vdagent-0.6.3-8.el6.x86_64 > $ rpm -qa \*kvm\* > qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.160.el6_1.2.x86_64 > $ cat /etc/redhat-release > Scientific Linux release 6.1 (Carbon) > $ uname -r > 2.6.32-131.17.1.el6.x86_64 > > # ls /dev/virtio-ports/ > ls: cannot access /dev/virtio-ports/: No such file or directory > > Hi Alon, > I must be missing something. For starters, I have no /dev/virtio-ports > directory. > I also must be blind too, as I can not find an "other devices" in my > virt-manager. > Please forgive the picture, but this is what I see: > virt-manager > This is so frustrating. What am I doing wrong? > Many thanks, > -T > > References > > 1. http://spice-space.org/download.html > 2. http://spice-space.org/download/binaries/virtio-serial_20110725.zip _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
