[Spice-devel] Problems with Qemu v1.0.rc4 with Spice v0.10.0

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 12/01/2011 11:08 AM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 05:21:01PM -0800, Naga Mohan Pothula wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using Qemu-1.0.rc4 with Spice v0.10.0 and able to launch RHEL6 guest successfully.
>> I'm facing problems while launching Win7 guest. Session gets hang by displaying Winlogo screen while booting.
>
> This sounds like a known bug, are you using the spice agent and qxl? This
> bug goes away when removing either qxl or virtio-serial from qemu command
> line. I really hope we'll have a fix for that soon :-/

I've seen something similar with windows XP guests, and I've found 2
workarounds, perhaps you can test those?

The 2 workarounds are:
1) Start the vm, but don't connect spice-client / virt-viewer, wait
    a couple of minutes to boot, then connect (it seems to hang
    when switching from vga to qxl mode, but only when a client is
    connected).
2) Downgrading the windows virtio-serial driver to version
    vioserial-win-1.1.16.zip, also seems to fix this

Regards,

Hans