On Friday 23 September 2011 14:07:17 Alon Levy wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 02:10:04PM -0500, Rick Vernam wrote: > > On Friday 16 September 2011 12:42:02 Rick Vernam wrote: > > > On Friday 16 September 2011 03:52:34 hkran wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > > > I have tried many times with many restarts or shutdown-and-boot xp > > > > guest but failed to meet the crashing. > > > > (I am using the virtio drivers referenced in the earlier mail list.) > > > > my command: > > > > > > > > /home/huikai/qemu15/bin/qemu --enable-kvm -m 768 -drive > > > > file=/home/huikai/winxp_dev.img,if=virtio -net nic,model=virtio -net > > > > user -usb -usbdevice tablet -localtime -vga qxl -device > > > > virtio-serial -chardev spicevmc,name=vdagent,id=vdagent -device > > > > virtserialport,chardev=vdagent,name=spice0 -spice > > > > port=1234,disable-ticketing -monitor > > > > telnet:localhost:12341,server,nowait > > > > > > Okay, I tried a variation of that: > > > qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu host -enable-kvm -m 1536 -pidfile > > > /home/rick/qemu/hds/wxp.pid -drive > > > file=/home/rick/qemu/hds/wxp.raw,if=virtio -net nic,model=virtio -net > > > user -localtime -usb -vga qxl -device virtio-serial -chardev > > > spicevmc,name=vdagent,id=vdagent -device > > > virtserialport,chardev=vdagent,name=spice0 -spice > > > port=1234,disable-ticketing -monitor > > > telnet:localhost:12341,server,nowait > > > > > > And it's been running stable all day. > > > The differences between the command line that crashes and yours are: > > > - yours doesn't have "aio=native" in the -drive declaration. > > > - yours has some differences in the virtio-serial device declaration. > > > - yours has some differences in the virtserialport device declaration. > > > > > > As time permits I'm going to try each of those differences > > > individually. > > > > Without "aio=native" ... > > in the definition of virtserialport, I changed "name=spice0" to > > "name=com.redhat.spice.0" - with this change, the guest vdagent works, > > but it crashed... > > If you provide details on the crash maybe someone can help. This email thread has details early on the thread, and there is a bug report here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/818673 All the details of the crash that are available to me are previously described.
> > > > Thanks, > > > -Rick
