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

[David Jaša]

Todd And Margo Chester píše v Ne 13. 11. 2011 v 19:25 -0800:
> > 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.
> 

Hi Todd,

there are three channels defined in the documentation. You only need the
last one, whose type is spicevmc:

  <devices>

    <!-- your other devices -->

    <channel type='spicevmc'>
      <target type='virtio' name='com.redhat.spice.0'/>
    </channel>
  </devices>

David

> Sorry for being so thick here.
> 
> Many thanks,
> -T
> 
> 
> >
> >>
> >> HTH,
> >>
> >> David
> >>
> >>> Many thanks,
> >>> -T
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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