[Spice-devel] Possible Windows vdagent problems

[Alon Levy]

On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 11:24:00AM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 22:25 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 10:49 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 12:31 +0300, Arnon Gilboa wrote:
> > > > John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 09:44 +0300, Arnon Gilboa wrote:
> > > > >   
> > > > >> Hi John,
> > > > >> See my comments below.
> > > > >> Arnon
> > > > >>
> > > > >> John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > > > >>     
> > > > >>> Hello, all.  I'm spinning this off of the "Unfair Comparisons with RDP"
> > > > >>> thread as that one is getting a bit long.  However, in it, Yaniv
> > > > >>> identified that we were not using vdagent in our Windows guest based
> > > > >>> upon the packet traces we submitted.  That sounded plausible as we have
> > > > >>> noticed the agent being quite unstable.  We are often unable to connect
> > > > >>> or the session seems to die.  We then connect as administrator via RDP
> > > > >>> and restart the RHEV Spice Agent and all is well again.
> > > > >>>   
> > > > >>>       
> > > > >> Can you please be more specific with regards to "agent being quite 
> > > > >> unstable"?
> > > > >> Please describe the problems, and we'll try to solve them.
> > > > >>     
> > > > >
> > > > > Alas, there is not more than I have already said.  Often, when we try to
> > > > > access the guest via SPICE, we simply get a black screen and then a
> > > > > connection timeout.  We connect to the guest via RDP as admin, restart
> > > > > RHEV Spice Agent service and we are then able to login.  Every once in a
> > > > > while, the SPICE client stops responding.  We restart the RHEV Spice
> > > > > Agent service as described and we are now able to work again.  There is
> > > > > nothing in event logs to indicate there was a problem.
> > > > >
> > > > >   
> > > > Try disabling power saving / sleep in your guest and see if it still 
> > > > reproduced.
> > > > In case it still happens, please send your %windir%\temp\vdservice.log & 
> > > > %windir%\temp\vdagemt.log files.
> > > > >> <snip>> So then I thought our qemu configuration must be off or the needed
> > > > >>     
> > > <snip>
> > > Alas, it has happened again.  I was not able to open a spice session -
> > > just a black screen followed by "Error: unhandled exception: vdagent
> > > timeout".  I double checked the Power Settings while unable to login and
> > > they were indeed on high performance with suspend video set to never.
> > > 
> > > I can also add that the keyboard was extremely lagged in SPICE.  I was
> > > using it without disabling effects so I exited and went in via RDP and
> > > noticed no lag.  I also ran background pings to see if we had problems
> > > on the connection and it was quite healthy.  I then tried SPICE again
> > > disabling all effects.  That's when I noticed I could not get in.  I
> > > restarted RHEV Spice Agent and was now able to get in with effects
> > > disabled but it was still very lagged.  It had clearly disabled effects;
> > > the difference in the font rendering was quite noticeable.  I exited
> > > again and tried via RDP and there was no lag.  I then tried connecting
> > > again and once again got only the black screen.
> > > 
> > > It was at that point that I grabbed the attached logs.  I then restarted
> > > the agent again, went in via SPICE without disabling effects and the
> > > response is much better now although keyboarding is still noticeably
> > > less crisp than RDP.
> > > 
> > > The logs look like they do not contain sensitive information so I have
> > > attached them herewith.  Thanks - John
> > <snip>
> > Alas, it has happened again for the first time in a few days.  I've
> > attached the logs.  How do we figure out what is wrong and stabilize
> > this? Thanks - John
> <snip>
> Happened again this morning - logs attached.  Interestingly, the service
> log does not seem to be updated since I logged off last night.  Is it
> helpful to keep sending these logs? I don't want to SPAM the list.
> Thanks - John

Bug reporting is always helpful. I guess Arnon being on vacation doesn't help you
tough.. Regarding attachments, you could also put this on a bug (open one on freedesktop,
assign to vdagent/spice if there is no vdagent component).


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