[Spice-devel] How do I install vioser in virt-manager?

[Marian Krcmarik]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Todd And Margo Chester" <toddandmargo at gmail.com>
> To: "Spice Devel" <spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 8:07:57 PM
> Subject: [Spice-devel] How do I install vioser in virt-manager?
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Scientific Linux 6.2 x64
> host: kvm
> guest: XP-Pro x32
> spice 0.8.x
> 
> I give up.  I have Googl'ed my fingers off on this one.  How
> do I install the virtio serial device in my guest with virt-manager?

I am not really sure what you are asking but in virt-manager I open a console of a guest ("Show the virtual console and details"), switch to details, then I choose in Display section Spice as display server, I get pop-up asking me: "You are switching graphics type to spice, would you like to add Spice agent channels?", I choose yes, then spicevmc channel and Contoller Virtio Serial appears in hardware list of VM. Then I install the driver Alon mentioned on my guest machine.
Or I add the virtio serial device manually using virsh (virsh edit $domain) by adding an element i.e. like this:
<controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/>
</controller>
(http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsControllers)

> 
> I see serial devices to add, but what type and what is the
> path to the device?  Am I even looking at the right serial devices?
> 
> Very frustrated and confused,
> -T
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