[Spice-devel] spice-vdagent start failed

[Alon Levy]

> 
> Hi,
> 
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> I use this qemu command line to start my virtual machine, but didn't
> get /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0

Is the guest kernel loading virtio-console module?

You should see something like:
# cat /proc/devices  | grep virt
252 virtio-portsdev

you should have CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE=m or y in your kernel config.

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> /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -name winxp -S -M pc-1.1 -cpu
> core2duo,+lahf_lm,+pdcm,+xtpr,+cx16,+tm2,+est,+vmx,+ds_cpl,+dtes64,+pbe,+tm,+ht,+ss,+acpi,+ds
> -enable-kvm -m 1024 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid
> 05f5ab57-fca8-3c2e-6705-79e40e85a2b4 -no-user-config -nodefaults
> -chardev
> socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/winxp.monitor,server,nowait
> -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=localtime
> -no-shutdown -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2
> -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5
> -drive
> file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/winxp.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=qcow2
> -device
> virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1
> -drive
> file=/home/apporc/Software/ISO/virtio-win-0.1-30.iso,if=none,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw
> -device ide-cd,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0
> -netdev tap,fd=19,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=20 -device
> virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:9d:e6:c2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
> -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device
> isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -chardev
> spicevmc,id=charchannel0,name=vdagent -device
> virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0
> -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -spice
> port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing -vga qxl -global
> qxl-vga.vram_size=67108864 -device AC97,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4
> -chardev spicevmc,id=charredir0,name=usbredir -device
> usb-redir,chardev=charredir0,id=redir0 -device
> virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6
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> 
> OS: gentoo
> Kernel: 3.5.7 x86_64
> VIRSH version:
> 
> Compiled against library: libvirt 0.10.2
> Using library: libvirt 0.10.2
> Using API: QEMU 0.10.2
> Running hypervisor: QEMU 1.1.2
> 
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> spice-vdagent version: 0.12.0
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> apporc-gentoo ~ # /etc/init.d/spice-vdagent start
> * Checking for required modules and devices ...
> * Required virtio port does not exist. Make sure you
> * started the virtual machine with appropriate parameters. [ !! ]
> * ERROR: spice-vdagent failed to start
> apporc-gentoo ~ # virsh list
> Id Name State
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 4 winxp running
> 
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> Thank you.
> 
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