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

[Alon Levy]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 12:30:14PM +0100, Julian Sikorski wrote:
> W dniu 29.01.2011 12:15, Alon Levy pisze:
> > 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?
> 
> Erm, I just forgot to attach it. My bad.
> 
> > 
> >> 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
> 
> I tried
> 
> 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 -vga qxl -device AC97,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5
> -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
> 
> but it failed even worse:
> 
> char device redirected to /dev/pts/7
> qemu-kvm: -netdev tap,fd=42,id=hostnet0: TUNGETIFF ioctl() failed: Bad
> file descriptor
> TUNSETOFFLOAD ioctl() failed: Bad file descriptor
> spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_QXL
> red_worker_main: begin
> red_init: ASSERT init_data->num_renderers > 0 failed
> 
> Przerwane (core dumped)
> 
> Should I try to get the backtrace? Adding -L /usr/share/qemu/ did not
> change anything (that's where the vga bios resides)

Regarding -L, did you make sure there is actually a vgabios-qxl.bin there? 
Regarding backtrace, it isn't really neccessary, the ASSERT says the problem,
It is a bug though, I think Gerd wanted to make sure -vga qxl can work without
-spice.

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

> <domain type='kvm'>
>   <name>windows</name>
>   <uuid>a5a9cf48-603e-5795-ba0f-b5692ce2d93d</uuid>
>   <memory>1048576</memory>
>   <currentMemory>1048576</currentMemory>
>   <vcpu>1</vcpu>
>   <os>
>     <type arch='x86_64' machine='fedora-13'>hvm</type>
>     <boot dev='hd'/>
>   </os>
>   <features>
>     <acpi/>
>     <apic/>
>     <pae/>
>   </features>
>   <clock offset='localtime'/>
>   <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
>   <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
>   <on_crash>restart</on_crash>
>   <devices>
>     <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator>
>     <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
>       <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
>       <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
>       <readonly/>
>       <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' unit='0'/>
>     </disk>
>     <disk type='file' device='disk'>
>       <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
>       <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/windows.img'/>
>       <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
>       <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/>
>     </disk>
>     <controller type='ide' index='0'>
>       <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/>
>     </controller>
>     <interface type='network'>
>       <mac address='52:54:00:6a:d1:82'/>
>       <source network='default'/>
>       <model type='virtio'/>
>       <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
>     </interface>
>     <serial type='pty'>
>       <target port='0'/>
>     </serial>
>     <console type='pty'>
>       <target type='serial' port='0'/>
>     </console>
>     <input type='tablet' bus='usb'/>
>     <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
>     <graphics type='spice' autoport='yes'/>
>     <sound model='ac97'>
>       <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/>
>     </sound>
>     <video>
>       <model type='qxl' vram='9216' heads='1'/>
>       <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
>     </video>
>     <memballoon model='virtio'>
>       <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>
>     </memballoon>
>   </devices>
> </domain>