[Spice-devel] Need help getting qxl and vdi_port installed in XP guest

[Alon Levy]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 03:02:20PM -0800, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
> On 11/30/2011 01:34 AM, Alon Levy wrote:
> >On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:55:38PM -0800, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
> >>Hi All,
> >>
> >>Help!
> >>
> >>This is really two topics I need help with. I am trying to get the
> >>qxl driver
> >>and the vdiport drivers installed into my XP Pro SP3 guest.
> >>
> >>
> >>1) XP Device Manager: vport0p1:
> >>
> >>In the user's manual, page 15, section 6.1.1, it states:
> >>
> >
> >Unfortunately that user manual should be updated, that information is
> >old.
> >
> >>vdiport driver install and removal is performed similarly to the QXL driver,
> >>but this time using the vdi_port.inf and vdi_port.sys files instead.
> >>
> >>I have scoured
> >>http://spice-space.org/download/binaries/
> >>
> >>looking for vdi_port.inf and vdi_port.sys with no success. Am I blind?
> >>
> >
> >We have stopped using vdi_port, it is used by older spice versions, in
> >newer vdagent and qemu we reuse the virtio-serial pci device, that has
> >seperate drivers.
> 
> Hi Alon,
> 
> Hopefully, EL 6.2 will have a lot of your new updated in it.
> 
> Were do I find a (legacy) copy of the old vdi port?
> 
> This is the PCI ID, if that helps:
> {6FDE7547-1B65-48AE-B628-80BE62016026}\VIOSERIALPORT\4&263E99FC&0&01

This seems to be a virtio-serial port. Can you provide the vendor and
product ids?

> 
> Many thanks,
> -T
> 
> Scientific Linux 6.1:
> 
> # rpm -qa \*virt\*
> python-virtinst-0.500.5-3.el6.noarch
> libvirt-0.8.7-18.el6_1.1.x86_64
> libvirt-client-0.8.7-18.el6_1.1.x86_64
> virt-manager-0.8.6-4.el6.noarch
> libvirt-python-0.8.7-18.el6_1.1.x86_64
> 
> # rpm -qa \*spice\*
> spice-server-0.8.0-1.el6.x86_64

New enough for chardev interface, so can use virtio-serial.

> spice-client-0.8.0-2.el6.x86_64
> spice-vdagent-0.6.3-8.el6.x86_64
> spice-protocol-0.8.0-1.el6.noarch
> 
> # rpm -qa \*kvm\*
> qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.160.el6_1.2.x86_64

New enough to contain virtio serial.
What does "qemu -help | grep vmc" show?

$ qemu-kvm -help | grep vmc
-chardev spicevmc,id=id,name=name[,debug=debug]

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