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

[Julian Sikorski]

W dniu 2011-01-29 10:47, Alon Levy pisze:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 09:54:37PM +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote:
>> 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...
> 
> My bad, I souldn't have suggested that, I didn't understand. I don't know either
> btw, wish I did.
> 
>>
>>>
>>>>> 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.
> 
> I run win7 32 bit win7 vm's with -m 1024. I'm not running F14, but git (actually
> some strange hybrid), so I can't be sure it's exactly the same.

I will try with the packages from the virt-preview repo maybe that will
help.

> 
>> 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.
> It shouldn't be. I'm not even sure where virt-manager keeps it's configuration.

IIRC it keeps it in the domain xml file wherever that is stored. In that
case, what would be the command line to enable virtio disk and network?

>>
>>>>
>>>> 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