[Spice-devel] Questions regarding QXL drivers and Spice

[lucas.gary at gmail.com]

I'll have the spare time on the weekend to get back to both of you.

I'll give compiling a new set of drivers a try then as well.

Here's the bug report I appended to previously if that's of any help:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30835

Gary Lucas

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Alon Levy <alevy at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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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