[Spice-devel] [Announce] spice-gtk 0.2

[Gianluca Cecchi]

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Marc-André Lureau
<marcandre.lureau at gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
> There are various things that are needed before you can really start a
> Spice VM from virt-manager, it's still work in progress.
>
> I use a qemu wrapper to run my spice branch of qemu. I edit the VM
> configuration with virsh and restart the VM. I think that's what you
> need too:

I'm already using a wrapper too. But I had to change to configure the
options for the agent.
I found I could now correctly start the vm with this substitution
inside the wrapper (I only have one vm using the wrapper at the
moment..)

sed 's|-device usb-tablet,id=input0|-device
virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6
-device spicevmc,nr=1,bus=virtio-serial0.0|g'

I had to put addr=0x6 because 0x5 was already used by the audio device.
So now my running guest accessed with spicy has this command line when
run from virt-manager

qemu     25169     1 36 17:08 ?        00:00:09 /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S
-M fedora-13 -cpu core2duo,+x2apic -enable-kvm -m 768 -smp
1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name w2k3 -uuid
9dd0e8cf-c501-b01a-48a4-eb025bb73f6b -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev
socket,id=monitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/w2k3.monitor,server,nowait
-mon chardev=monitor,mode=readline -rtc base=localtime -boot dc -drive
if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device
ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -drive
file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/w2k3new.img,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-1,boot=on,format=raw
-device ide-drive,bus=ide.0,unit=1,drive=drive-ide0-0-1,id=ide0-0-1
-device rtl8139,vlan=0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:ff:61:63,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4
-net tap,fd=45,vlan=0,name=hostnet0 -chardev pty,id=serial0 -device
isa-serial,chardev=serial0 -usb -device
virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6
-device spicevmc,nr=1,bus=virtio-serial0.0 -spice
port=5903,disable-ticketing -vga qxl -device
AC97,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -device
virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3

W2k3 detects a new device
PCI Simple Communications Controller
I suppose it is virtio-serial, correct?
I so installed driver from vioserial-win-1.1.16.zip  zip, using Wxp
drivers as I didn't find w2k3 ones...
It din't complain
Restart guest but agent doesn't start....
At bottom of spicy window I have
mouse: server, agent:no

The agent is set to start automatically but it doesn't. If I manually
start it, windows says that started and then stopped....