[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

Hi David,

    Maybe it would if I got a bit more specific as to why I am confused.
Now, I am good at editing, and have used "vi" for years, and am no
stranger to copying and pasting.  I just don't understand the why
behind what I am pasting.

    Specifically, this line from 
http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementCharChannel:

     <channel type='pty'>
        <target type='virtio' name='arbitrary.virtio.serial.port.name'/>
     </channel>

"arbitrary.virtio.serial.port.name" is what is confusing me.  I highly
doubt this is the "any key".  "arbitrary" always has to be matched with
"arbitrary" somewhere else.  What somewhere else?  This is confusing me.
And, why an example of your (or anyone else's) would be of great help.

Sorry for being so thick here.

Many thanks,
-T


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