On Friday, 13 January 2012 11:47:39 Olav Vitters wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 06:14:46PM -0500, Scott Chevalley wrote: > > I'm using KVM for a windows 7 vm and I just tried to use gnome-boxes to > > create, I guess, a vm for a drbl live cd and it created it but when I > > launch it the app just shows a black screen and doesn't do anything. > > Thanks for testing! > > I'm getting the same black screen.
Have you tried connecting with spicec ? > So it seems it doesn't work anyone :-( > > Did you launch it from the terminal? Any debug output? > > > There's not much documentation so I'm not sure exactly what's supposed to > > happen versus what is happening. > > You should be seeing the VM. It uses something new called 'splice'. I > think that is where the error lies. The Fedora version of qemu 0.15 had > some patches which they dropped in qemu 1.0. I'm hoping qemu 1.0 solves > the issues, but wasn't able to compile it yesterday. > > "Splice" is pretty nice as you can e.g. share your USB somehow between > the host and the VM (gnome-boxes has a checkbox, but no clue about the > technical details). I think you mean 'spice', which is a remote desktop protocol, which covers display, sound, device sharing, printing etc. (AFAIU). I am more interested in the spice support in the libvirt/virt-manager tools ... but I am not running cauldron. > > I'll be happy to do some more testing if you can give me some pointers as > > to what I'm looking for. > > The debug output from the terminal would be nice, as well as > $HOME/.libvirt/qemu/log/*. > > I really want to get this working before the next Mageia testversion is > released.. I would like to see virt-manager with spice support, and support in the distribution for spice when a VM under qemu with spice support (spice-vdagent stuff). Regards, Buchan
