[Spice-devel] Ubuntu Spice Howto

[Todd Deshane]

Hi Bryan,

Thanks for testing!

It's finals week here, so we'll test more here as we have time and get
back to you with updates.

I had forgotten about the Spice Wiki...It would make sense for us to
move content there.

We haven't started testing the Qemu upstream stuff yet. Last I knew,
it was still a very early patch set.

Also, I think the instructions should work on Ubuntu 10.04 too, but we
can verify that too.

Thanks,
Todd

P.S. Sorry for the top post, but we'll write back more properly next time.

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Todd Deshane
http://todddeshane.net
http://runningxen.com

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Bryan Stillwell <bryan at bokeoa.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:34:26PM -0400, Todd Deshane wrote:
>>We've been testing out the initial release of Spice in our lab [1] and
>>have found it to be quite impressive. We made a little howto [2] for
>>Ubuntu, since much of the documentation and packages are Fedora-based.
>>We just wanted to share it in case it is useful to others who want to
>>do testing on Ubuntu.
>>
>>[1] http://cosi.clarkson.edu/
>>[2] http://docs.cslabs.clarkson.edu/wiki/SPICE
>
> Thanks for the howto for Ubuntu!  However, I tried following them on my
> Ubuntu Karmic system and found a few issues:
>
> 1. The dependency installation command lists libasound-dev, but it's
>   named libasound2-dev on karmic.
>
>
> 2. The qemu step for enabling spice is incomplete:
>
>   # enable spice support in qemu:
>   qemu-enable spice
>
>   I couldn't find the 'qemu-enable' script/executable in any package on
>   karmic.  It doesn't even appear like this step is needed at all.
>
>
> 3. The bios files are copied to the wrong location.  The way
>   qemu-system-x86_64 is built, it looks for it in /usr/local/share/qemu
>   or you'll get this message:
>
>   qemu: could not load PC BIOS '/usr/local/share/qemu/bios.bin'
>
>
> After that, things look pretty good.  Although I haven't done a lot of
> testing with it yet.  Perhaps we could move the Ubuntu build
> instructions over to the official SPICE wiki?  It would also be good to
> add information on testing the latest upstream code there too.
>
> Bryan
>