[Spice-devel] Questions regarding QXL drivers and Spice

[Alon Levy]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 09:52:20PM -0700, lucas.gary at gmail.com wrote:
> I've been attempting to use KVM / Spice and QXL to handle my virtualization
> environment.
> 
> I've noticed a couple of issues, and I haven't been able to track down other
> people having the same issues.
> 
> This strikes me as odd as I don't think my setup is particularly unique.
> 
> I'm running Fedora 15 with current versions of everything. (libvirtd 0.8.8)
> 
> The issues I've encountered are:
> Windows Guests: (WinXp - Win 7)
> Blue screen of death after doing something graphically intensive, I did find
> a mention of this in bugzilla, but only one mention...
> 
> Linux guests (FC14 primarily but has occurred in other guests)
> Random logouts that bounce me back to the KDE login screen.  It also resets
> my resolution to something quite low.
> 
> If anyone is interested I can dig up memory dumps from the Windows XP
> BSOD...  I was unable to find anything useful regarding the FC14 crashes but
> I would be totally willing to attempt to reproduce them if it would help.
> 

Thanks for the feedback. I would be interested in trying to reproduce with newer
drivers, unfortunately I don't have a driver+pdb to give you right now, so unless
you can compile yourself this will have to wait a little (at least for me).

> When these occur I am always running Spice + QXL...  Windows QXL client is
> 0.6.1, I just tried with 0.6.0, I didn't get a meaningful memory dump but
> the process did eventually crash after about 15 minutes of scrolling
> a Firefox browser up and down and watching flash videos...
> 
> I did manually change the ram setting in the XML file and here is the qemu
> command line that launched the WinXP machine:
> 
> qemu      3859 53.1  8.8 2696152 2196932 ?     Sl   20:27   0:51
> /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -S -M pc-0.14 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -smp
> 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -name WinXP -uuid
> c35128d3-1c56-2cf9-a6db-3f61a64a964a -nodefconfig -nodefaults -chardev
> socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/WinXP.monitor,server,nowait
> -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=localtime -boot c
> -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 -drive
> file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/WinXP.img,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,boot=on,format=qcow2
> -device
> virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0
> -netdev tap,fd=21,id=hostnet0 -device
> virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:d1:11:3e,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
> -chardev pty,id=charserial0 -device
> isa-serial,chardev=charserial0,id=serial0 -chardev
> spicevmc,id=charchannel0,name=vdagent -device
> virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0
> -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -spice
> port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing -vga qxl -device
> ES1370,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4 -device
> virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7
> 
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Gary C. Lucas

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