[Spice-devel] BSOD when booting Win7 Pro with spice

[Julian Sikorski]

W dniu 28.01.2011 21:06, Alon Levy pisze:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 08:48:06PM +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote:
>> W dniu 28.01.2011 15:32, Alon Levy pisze:
>>> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:45:07AM +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I wanted to try spice on Fedora 14. I have a Win7 Pro 32bit image which
>>>> was created with virt manager. I later added virtio network and drive to
>>>> it, installing drivers in the guest as well.
>>>> The problem is that if I try to use this machine as per F14 wiki, i.e.:
>>>> qemu /var/lib/libvirt/images/windows.img -usbdevice tablet -soundhw ac97
>>>> -vga qxl -spice port=5930,password=asd -enable-kvm
>>>> the windows guest will BSOD during boot (note that I need to do this as
>>>> su due to the way how virt-manager sets permissions).
>>>> Is this issue known? What info could I provide to help resolving this?
>>>
>>> So which version do you have, 0.7.2?
>>
>> I tried both the version from f14 updates and from f14 preview repo.
>> Neither of them works.
>>
>>> does the vm boot normally when booting without spice?
>>
>> Yes, I can boot the machine via the virt-manager just fine.
>>
>> does the vm have qxl driver installed already?
>>
>> IIRC it does not. Where I can downlad such driver, and would it be OK to
>> install it while booted via virt-manager with no spice?
>>
> If you didn't install it it wouldn't have, the driver isn't part of win7
> install or available via updates or something. But actually I don't want you
> to install it, I mean it might help (so you might want to try that - it's
> available at http://www.spice-space.org/download.html) but this means the
> problem is with the qxl device vga emulation. (I still have no clue)

I'm not sure how to install the driver with the device not present I'm
afraid...

> 
>>> can you give the bsod screenshot (from monitor in qemu you can do screendump <filename.ppm>)?
>>
>> http://belegdol.fedorapeople.org/spicebsod.png
> 
> How much memory do you give the vm? it seems like you are giving it the default. Could you try enlarging that? I'm just saying this because
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326679
> 

Looks like you were right. In virt-manager I gave it 1 GB, which was
enough. But when I added -m 1596 to the command line spice also started
to work. Unfortunately, it brought the machine to crawl since I only
have 2 GB physical ram in this laptop.
By the way, is the configuration made with virt-manager respected when
you run qemu from the command line? To me it seemed like virtio harddisk
was gone since windows was looking for a driver for a qemu harddrive or
something along these lines.

>>
>> I hope this will make it more clear what I am trying to accomplish, or
>> show where I am doing the wrong thing.
> 
> It certainly helps, thanks for taking the time to report this.
> 

No problem.

Cheers,
Julian