[Spice-devel] vdagent does not start

[Marian Krcmarik]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Emre Erenoglu" <erenoglu at gmail.com>
> To: spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 1:10:16 PM
> Subject: [Spice-devel] vdagent does not start
> Dear Developers,
> 
> I have a virtual XP system with the spice channel enabled through the
> serial port. The command line that runs qemu has (reduced):
> 
> -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x8
> -chardev null,id=channel0 -device
> virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=0,chardev=channel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0
> -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -spice
> port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing -vga qxl -device
> qxl,id=video1,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7

I think you may need to specify chardev for spice so I would modify:

-device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x8  -chardev spicevmc,id=channel0,name=vdagent -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=0,chardev=channel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -spice port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing -vga qxl -device qxl,id=video1,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7

with agent and virtio-serial driver installed on guest.
> 
> However, the vdagent services does not start. when I give it a start
> control, it reports to start then stop immediately. Here are the logs
> I've found: