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

[Todd And Margo Chester]

On 11/11/2011 03:36 AM, David Jaša wrote:
> Todd And Margo Chester píše v Čt 10. 11. 2011 v 10:58 -0800:
>> 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
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>
>> 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?
>>
> It seems to me that your version of virt-manager doesn't know about
> spice channel yet, so I suggest you to add it to libvirt configuration
> via CLI - run 'virsh edit $YOUR_VM_NAME' and add spicevmc channel to
> devices list as described here:
> http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementCharChannel
>
> Once you add it, you should see the channel in virt-manager, too.

Hi David,

    I am confused.  Any change you can show me an example?  Are you
running Virtio-serial on your machine?  Can you show me what yours
looks like?

Many thanks,
-T


>
> HTH,
>
> David
>
>> Many thanks,
>> -T
>>
>>
>>
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