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

Thu Nov 10 13:28:22 PST 2011

On 11/09/2011 12:51 PM, Alon Levy wrote:
 > 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:
 >
 >  http://spice-space.org/download.html
 >
 >  under "Windows binaries:", current link is
 >  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
 >> _______________________________________________
 >>

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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: [inline picture
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This is so frustrating.  What am I doing wrong?

Many thanks,
-T

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