Quoting James Crow ([email protected]): > 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.
For what it's worth, I took an existing ubuntu server image (12.04 I believe) and booted it with kvm-spice -drive file=preciseserv1.img,if=virtio,cache=none,index=0 \ -vga qxl -spice disable-ticketing,port=5930 -m 2048 -redir tcp:2222::22 when I did 'spicy -h localhost -p 5930' I got a blank screen. But I could ssh in using 'ssh -p 2222 localhost'. So the host did come up. I don't have a lucid guest handy - it's not impossible that it somehow balks and refuses to boot. But like I say when I've had that happen with precise guests, then when I boot through vnc i find that grub is waiting for input (because of a prior unclean shutdown). I can also still boot a ubuntu precise desktop iso with spice. > -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 -serge -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
