[Spice-devel] QXL driver under Win7/X86_64

[Arnon Gilboa]

Try putting the signed drivers & inf file in a temp folder, and install 
it from Device Manager -> Display adapters.
I am working with the driver in Win7x64 but never tried just "copying 
the files" as written in the wikipage.

Arnon

Dyweni - Spice-Devel wrote:
> Hi List/Phil!
>
> I need help setting up my first SPICE VM and my issue sounds similar 
> to Phil's.
>
> I've created a QEMU-KVM virtual machine and built/signed/installed the 
> QXL driver (checked out from GIT), per the instructions given on the 
> wiki.
>
> All is fine when I run qemu using the 'std' VGA adapter. I'm able to 
> install Win 7 64bit and use it (without any QXL/SPICE drivers in the 
> guest). Here is the QEMU start command:
> qemu-system-x86_64 --drive format=raw,file=hdimage -cdrom 
> win764bit.iso -m 4096 -smp 6 -usbdevice tablet -monitor stdio -vga std 
> -spice port=5900,disable-ticketing
>
>
> My problem is as soon as I switch to using the 'qxl' driver, I loose 
> 99% of the video. The only video that I am able to see, is the 
> horizontal scrolling bar when Windows 7 first starts up. Everything is 
> completely black before and after that. This is the case even after 
> installing the signed driver (dll in system32, sys in system32\drivers).
>
> QEMU-KVM is build from GIT SOURCES yesterday (commit: 
> 05f1737582ab6c075476bde931c5eafbc62a9349).
> It was built against Spice 0.8.1.
>
> I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but would greatly appreciate any 
> help that could be offered here.
>
> Thanks,
> Dyweni
>
>
>
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:01:22 +0100 (BST), --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am desperately trying to get SPICE running under Fedora 15 and having
>> real issues with QXL. I have compiled the QXL driver under Win7/X86_64,
>> copied the .dll and .sys to the relevant WindowsSystem32 and rebooted 
>> but
>> when signing back in QXL is still not being detected. I have followed
>>
> http://spice-space.org/page/WinQXL#Detailed_Instructions:_Build_QXL_on_Windows_7_64_bit 
>
>> [1] to the letter. This is the QEMU start line, which was generated by
>> virt-manager, if that helps:
>>
>> /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc-0.14 -enable-kvm -m 8192 -smp
>> 8,sockets=2,cores=4,threads=1 -name windesk01 -uuid
>> 5c548f44-1948-e907-d7cd-a865e3914d6e -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev
>>
> socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/windesk01.monitor,server,nowait 
>
>> -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=localtime
>> -no-kvm-pit-reinjection -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=/dev/mapper/iwindesk01-c,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,boot=on,format=raw 
>
>> -device
>>
> virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0 
>
>> -drive
>>
>> file=/dev/mapper/iwindesk01-d,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk1,format=raw
>> -device
>>
> virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,drive=drive-virtio-disk1,id=virtio-disk1 
>
>> -netdev tap,fd=21,id=hostnet0 -device
>>
> virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=54:52:00:02:01:01,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 
>
>> -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device isa-seri
>> al,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0
>> -spice port=5900,addr=0.0.0.0,disable-ticketing -vga qxl -device
>> virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6
>>
>> Any ideas would be most gratefully appreciated ?
>> -- 
>> Thanks, Phil
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