[Spice-devel] virtio and qxl windows xp driver problems with spice

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Mon Jun 14 03:25:01 PDT 2010


   Hi,

> Firstly, virtio support appears not to work correctly when using spice.

Same without spice?

virtio booting (without extboot as used by qemu-kvm) is pretty new, 
might be there are still some bugs left ...

> Also, qxl support appears to be broken somehow. Windows will recognize a
> "VGA Controller" but will not install any version of the qxl driver,
> including the old one found here[4] and the latest one I grabbed from
> the spice website[5]. I can force Windows to install the driver, but
> Windows then won't load it.

The old (spice 0.4) one will not load.
Unstable should (and does for me).  Hmm ...

cheers,
   Gerd



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