On 04/18/2012 04:42 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote:
Quoting James Crow ([email protected]):
Hello,
I posted on the Ubuntu-User list, but received no helpful replies.
I have a 12.04 amd64 desktop install that I am trying to use
kvm-spice to run a virtual Windows install. kvm is working fine and
I have a regular vnc guest (Windows XP) that is running. I tried to
create a new guest using kvm-spice as the hypervisor. I used an iso
image and allocated a 40GB image file. Once the image was created,
the guest shows as running, but I have no video in either the
Virtual Machine Manager or connecting with spicy.
Does anyone have a working kvm-spice install on 12.04?
I've used it, yes. It does have problems, which is why it remains
a tech preview. (There are also concerns about where the package is
heading.) Make sure that you've added '-enable-kvm' to the arguments or
it'll run unaccelerated... The guest must support qxl. But the most
annoying thing has been that for instance grub screens aren't visible.
I've had working ubuntu+unity, kubuntu, and fedora installs under
kvm-spice. Sometimes when grub decides it doesn't want to boot
until I hit return, I just get a blank screen and I have to boot with
-vnc to get a clean boot.
Have you installed the SPICE client binaries in the windows guest?
See 'Windows client' under http://spice-space.org/download.html
(linking to
http://spice-space.org/download/binaries/spice-client-win32-0.6.3.zip )
Perhaps you can boot with vnc, run the spicec.exe in there, and then
boot with spice? I don't know... haven't yet had a chance to try.
-serge
Serge,
Thanks for the note. The problem with spice/qxl is that I get absolutely
no video output. No BIOS, nothing. It is hard to tell if the guest is
even booting. I cloned a working 10.04 guest (server no X) that boots to
a login in a couple of seconds. I tried to ping its statically assigned
IP but it seemed to never boot. With no video output it is hard to tell
if the guest did boot.
-enable-kvm is one of the arguments passed to kvm-spice.
I guess my next attempt should be with a working Windows guest. I will
install the spice client libs with vnc and then convert.
Thank you,
James Crow
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