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

[Alon Levy]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 01:15:20PM +0200, Alon Levy wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 12:06:23PM +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote:
> > W dniu 29.01.2011 11:02, Alon Levy pisze:
> > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:56:16AM +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote:
> > >> 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?
> > > Just run virt-manager, then ps xaw | grep qemu and pick it from there :)
> > > 
> > > I think this is correct, but I'm no expert on these parameters: (i.e.
> > >  this is what I'm running)
> > > 
> > >   "-net nic,macaddr=00:00:11:11:22:00,model=virtio"
> > >   '-drive file="%(image)s",index=0,media=disk,cache=writeback,if=virtio'
> > > 
> > 
> > OK, it seems like I hit another issue. I updated to libvirt from
> > virt-preview repo and qemu from bug 664192. Then I edited the domain xml
> > to enable qxl graphics and spice (xml attached for convenience).
> It isn't. Your previous emails didn't have attachments as well. Maybe
> they are being stripped somewhere along the way?
> 
> > The problem - virsh start windows attempts to add -spice
> > port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing, which fails due to wrong
> > addr parameter. I take that out, getting:
> > 
> > QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=spice /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M fedora-13 -enable-kvm -m
> > 1024 -smp 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -name windows -uuid
> > a5a9cf48-603e-5795-ba0f-b5692ce2d93d -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev
> > socket,id=monitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/windows.monitor,server,nowait
> > -mon chardev=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=localtime -boot c -drive
> > if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device
> > ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -drive
> > file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/windows.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,boot=on,format=raw
> > -device
> > virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0
> > -netdev tap,fd=42,id=hostnet0 -device
> > virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:6a:d1:82,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4
> > -chardev pty,id=serial0 -device isa-serial,chardev=serial0 -usb -device
> > usb-tablet,id=input0 -spice port=5900,disable-ticketing -vga qxl -device
> > AC97,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -device
> > virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
> > 
> > and qemu starts, but when I connect to it using
> > 
> > spicec -h localhost -p 5900
> > 
> > all I can see is black screen.
> 
> This sounds like missing vgabios. Try running without -spice (but with -vga qxl)
> , is it still black? you can workaround this by adding "-L <qemu_dir>/pc-bios"
> and making sure that directory contains vgabios-qxl.bin
> 

btw, if this is the case, the actual problem is that -vga qxl (or -device qxl)
doesn't complain it can't find it's vgabios file, and in that case would be
nice if someone opened a bug O:)

> > 
> > >>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> 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
> > >>
> >