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

[Alon Levy]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:58:04AM -0800, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>    On 11/09/2011 12:51 PM, Alon Levy wrote:
> 

Todd,

 Sorry for the OT, but I'm really having a hard time reading your
 emails, I'm using mutt and to read html I pipe it through lynx, it's
 hard to see what is new and what is old. What are your current
 problems?

Alon

> On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 11:07:57AM -0800, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
> 
> 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 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?
> 
> The serial device should appear in other devices (along with the cpus)
> in device manager. There is a link for a driver on the dowload page of
> spice:
> 
>  [1]http://spice-space.org/download.html
> 
>  under "Windows binaries:", current link is
>  [2]http://spice-space.org/download/binaries/virtio-serial_20110725.zip
>  which looks relatively recent.
> 
>  I don't remember the upstream location for the drivers, I'll try to
>  find it and update, but I think those should be good, let me know if
>  they aren't.
> 
> Note that this is not the serial device you should also have in the vm,
> i.e. COM1, but a different device.
> 
> Alon
> 
> 
> Very frustrated and confused,
> -T
> _______________________________________________
> 
> 
>    My revisions:
> 
>      $ rpm -qa \*spice\*
>      spice-server-0.8.0-1.el6.x86_64
>      spice-client-0.8.0-2.el6.x86_64
>      spice-protocol-0.8.0-1.el6.noarch
>      # rpm -qa \*vdagent\*
>      spice-vdagent-0.6.3-8.el6.x86_64
>      $ rpm -qa \*kvm\*
>      qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.160.el6_1.2.x86_64
>      $ cat /etc/redhat-release
>      Scientific Linux release 6.1 (Carbon)
>      $ uname -r
>      2.6.32-131.17.1.el6.x86_64
> 
>      # ls /dev/virtio-ports/
>      ls: cannot access /dev/virtio-ports/: No such file or directory
> 
>    Hi Alon,
>    I must be missing something.  For starters, I have no /dev/virtio-ports
>    directory.
>    I also must be blind too, as I can not find an "other devices" in my
>    virt-manager.
>    Please forgive the picture, but this is what I see:
>    virt-manager
>    This is so frustrating.  What am I doing wrong?
>    Many thanks,
>    -T
> 
> References
> 
>    1. http://spice-space.org/download.html
>    2. http://spice-space.org/download/binaries/virtio-serial_20110725.zip