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' > > >> > >>>> > >>>> 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
