[Spice-devel] vdagent vdservice and windows 2003 server

Alon Levy alevy at redhat.com
Sun May 1 08:44:41 PDT 2011


On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 07:13:38PM +0400, Emre Erenoglu wrote:
> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Alon Levy <alevy at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 03:40:52PM +0400, Emre Erenoglu wrote:
> > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Emre Erenoglu <erenoglu at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Gianluca Cecchi <
> > > > gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Arnon Gilboa <agilboa at redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> >>>> Please try the updated binaries at:
> > > >> >>>>
> > > >>
> > http://www.spice-space.org/download/binaries/vdagent-win32_28042011.zip
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> >>> I'm going to test too on my w2k3 guest.
> > > >> >>> Is it correct this workflow?
> > > >> >>> - I have to install virtio-serial before vdagent, so I configure
> > > >> >>> spicevmc channel in virt-manager
> > > >> >>> Questions:
> > > >> >>> a) is a newer version than 1.1.16 available?
> > > >> >>>
> > > >> >
> > > >> > i think the latest is 1.1.20. will update it soon
> > > >> >>>
> > > >> OK, thanks.
> > > >>
> > > >> >>> b) do I have to remove the tablet input device (as I read in a
> > > >> >>> November 2010 thread)? Or can I leave it?
> > > >> >>>
> > > >> >>>
> > > >> >
> > > >> > you can leave it, but when the agent is up it will be preferred
> > > >> >>>
> > > >>
> > > >> OK.
> > > >>
> > > >> >
> > > >> > right, but first you need to stop and uninstall the previous one
> > > >> OK, done so (also in win7 see below)
> > > >>
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >> Any news for testing also on win7, where I'm unable to run the
> > agent
> > > >> till
> > > >> >> today?
> > > >> >> I have a guest already configured and can test and give feedback.
> > Let
> > > >> me
> > > >> >> know.
> > > >> >>
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I have no problem on win7. what issue do you have? remember to
> > install
> > > >> the
> > > >> > service from admin cmd.
> > > >> >>
> > > >>
> > > >> The previous version didn't work.
> > > >> I've just tested the new one from today in w7 sp1 guest 32bit and it
> > > >> works there too ;-)
> > > >> Thanks!
> > > >> Tested only copy/paste from/to guest/host with notepad and putty
> > > >> @guest and gedit @host
> > > >> Well done
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > new vdagent works for me in 32 bit Windows 2003 Server. Great job!
> > > >
> > >
> > > Sometimes, I'm having some copy/paste issues within the guest. like I
> > can't
> > > copy and paste an email message in Outlook, etc. The virtual system hangs
> > > for some time, then recovers but does not paste.
> >
> > Do you have anything in %USERPROFILE%\spicec\spicec.log? could you open a
> > bug on this?
> >
> >
> I'm not sure to undertstand the question. Guest is not using spicec, spicy
> is running on the host system. Inside the guest, there's vdagent running.
> Copy paste problem is inside the guest, nothing to do with the host. (ie I'm
> copying inside the guest and pasting inside the guest)

Sorry, my mistake - I mean to ask about vdagent log files, not spicec, just force
of habit. Those are in c:\windows\temp\vdagent.log and c:\windows\temp\vdservice.log

> 
> -- 
> Emre

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