[Spice-devel] Spice Windows 7 display driver?

Alon Levy alevy at redhat.com
Tue Aug 2 23:23:13 PDT 2011


On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 01:17:36PM -0400, Nathan Lager wrote:
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> Ok, a little less hacky, i still need to tack on -spice... but i virsh
> edited my vdi vm, changed the video from "vga" to "qlx", now the command
> line generated uses -vga qlx, no more -vga std in the command. But the
> problem persists.
> 

I can reproduce. I'll update when I have a fix. This driver has been tested
just with the revision 3 device using newer spice and unreleased qemu-kvm,
sorry for that.

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> On 08/02/2011 12:47 PM, Alon Levy wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 12:19:37PM -0400, Nathan Lager wrote:
> > Ok.. One step further.  Its installed, device manager reports my display
> > adapter as a Red Hat QXL GPU, but it says that "The device cannot start.
> > (Code 10)"
> > 
> > 
> >> What are the chances you are running via libvirt and with multiple displays?
> >> can you post the command line? if those assumptions are correct, or even if only
> >> the first, can you search for "multifunction=on" in qxl related parts of that
> >> command line, remove them, run it via a terminal, and report if it works?
> > 
> > On 08/02/2011 10:05 AM, Arnon Gilboa wrote:
> >>>> Hi Nathan,
> >>>> Get the updated test-signed driver from the download page, or directly:
> >>>> http://www.spice-space.org/download/binaries/qxl-win_20110802.zip
> >>>>
> >>>> Arnon
> >>>>
> >>>> Nathan Lager wrote:
> >>>> I've been running in circles attempting to install a Display driver in
> >>>> Windows 7 x64 for use with Spice.
> >>>>
> >>>> My host is CentOS6 x64, My guest is Windows 7 x64.  Spice is enabled, as
> >>>> is -vga qxl,
> >>>>
> >>>> Windows see's the display adapter as "standard vga graphics adapter".
> >>>> Where can i get the drivers for RedHad Spice?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks.
> >>>>
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