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

Alon Levy alevy at redhat.com
Thu Dec 1 03:51:49 PST 2011


On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 01:29:01PM +0200, Alon Levy wrote:
> 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.
Meant spicevmc. virtio-serial was there a long time before that.

> What does "qemu -help | grep vmc" show?
> 
> $ qemu-kvm -help | grep vmc
> -chardev spicevmc,id=id,name=name[,debug=debug]
> 
> > 
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