On 11/14/2011 01:13 AM, David Jaša wrote:
Todd And Margo Chester píše v Ne 13. 11. 2011 v 19:25 -0800:
On 11/11/2011 03:36 AM, David Jaša wrote:
Todd And Margo Chester píše v Čt 10. 11. 2011 v 10:58 -0800:
On 11/09/2011 12:51 PM, Alon Levy wrote:
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:
http://spice-space.org/download.html
under "Windows binaries:", current link is
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
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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?
It seems to me that your version of virt-manager doesn't know about
spice channel yet, so I suggest you to add it to libvirt configuration
via CLI - run 'virsh edit $YOUR_VM_NAME' and add spicevmc channel to
devices list as described here:
http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementCharChannel
Once you add it, you should see the channel in virt-manager, too.
Hi David,
I am confused. Any change you can show me an example? Are you
running Virtio-serial on your machine? Can you show me what yours
looks like?
Many thanks,
-T
Hi David,
Maybe it would if I got a bit more specific as to why I am confused.
Now, I am good at editing, and have used "vi" for years, and am no
stranger to copying and pasting. I just don't understand the why
behind what I am pasting.
Specifically, this line from
http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementCharChannel:
<channel type='pty'>
<target type='virtio' name='arbitrary.virtio.serial.port.name'/>
</channel>
"arbitrary.virtio.serial.port.name" is what is confusing me. I highly
doubt this is the "any key". "arbitrary" always has to be matched with
"arbitrary" somewhere else. What somewhere else? This is confusing me.
And, why an example of your (or anyone else's) would be of great help.
Hi Todd,
there are three channels defined in the documentation. You only need the
last one, whose type is spicevmc:
<devices>
<!-- your other devices -->
<channel type='spicevmc'>
<target type='virtio' name='com.redhat.spice.0'/>
</channel>
</devices>
David
Thank you. Got it installed and the device showed up in my Windows
guest. I got the Windows virtio serial drivers installed for it to
in the guest. Still no clipboard.
Hi Guys,
I can not get /etc/rc.d/init.d/spice-vdagentd to start because of the line
[ -c $port ] || exit 0 # where "$port" =
"/dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0"
in the "start" function.
Problem: I have no "/dev/virtio-ports" directory. "spice-vdagentd" exits as
it is suppose to.
How do I get "/dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0" to show up? What did I
not install? What am I doing wrong?
It has to be on qemu-kvm command line or in libvirt's domain xml. We
told you all the instructions in previous thread, if you don't
understand something, please ask there more concretely.
David
Hi David,
Please remember that my skill level at this is considerably lower
than yours and there is a strong possibility I did not understand
what you told me.
Here is were I am currently at. From my research on the following
sites:
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/SPICE
http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/braindump/f15-winxppro.xml.txt
http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementCharChannel
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtioSerial
I do believe what I have to do is put the following on either
the command line or in the virt xml file (am I wrong?):
-device virtio-serial-pci
-device virtserialport,chardev=spicechannel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0
-chardev spicevmc,id=spicechannel0,name=vdagent
Now with the miracle of the "ps" command, I am looking at the run
string that virsh is using. I find the following in the run
string (let me know if you want to see the entire string):
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm ... \
-device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 ...\
-chardev spicevmc,id=charchannel0,name=vdagent ...\
-device virtserialport,bus=virtio-\
serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,\
id=channel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0
Seems to me I have what is required. Maybe not? Do you see
anything wrong?
And still no "/dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0" so
"/etc/rc.d/init.d/spice-vdagentd" will not start, whether
or not my guest is running.
I am at a total loss. I really, really need the clipboard to
work. What am I doing wrong? What have I missed? I am
very frustrated: I know you guys got it to work, why can't I?
Many thanks,
-T
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