[Spice-devel] How do I install vioser in virt-manager?
Marian Krcmarik
mkrcmari at redhat.com
Wed Nov 23 12:39:42 PST 2011
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Todd And Margo Chester" <toddandmargo at gmail.com>
> To: "David Jaša" <djasa at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Spice Devel" <spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 8:46:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] How do I install vioser in virt-manager?
>
> On 11/14/2011 01:13 AM, David Jaša wrote:
> > 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
>
> Thank you. Got it installed and the device showed up in my Windows
> guest. I got the Windows virtio serial drivers installed for it to
> in the guest. Still no clipboard.
>
> >> Hi Guys,
> >>
> >> I can not get /etc/rc.d/init.d/spice-vdagentd to start because of
> >> the line
> >>
> >> [ -c $port ] || exit 0 # where "$port" =
> >> "/dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0"
> >>
> >> in the "start" function.
> >>
> >> Problem: I have no "/dev/virtio-ports" directory.
> >> "spice-vdagentd" exits as
> >> it is suppose to.
> >>
> >> How do I get "/dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0" to show up?
> >> What did I
> >> not install? What am I doing wrong?
> >>
> > It has to be on qemu-kvm command line or in libvirt's domain xml.
> > We
> > told you all the instructions in previous thread, if you don't
> > understand something, please ask there more concretely.
> >
> > David
> >
>
>
> Hi David,
>
> Please remember that my skill level at this is considerably lower
> than yours and there is a strong possibility I did not understand
> what you told me.
>
> Here is were I am currently at. From my research on the following
> sites:
>
> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/SPICE
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/braindump/f15-winxppro.xml.txt
> http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementCharChannel
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtioSerial
>
> I do believe what I have to do is put the following on either
> the command line or in the virt xml file (am I wrong?):
>
> -device virtio-serial-pci
> -device
> virtserialport,chardev=spicechannel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0
> -chardev spicevmc,id=spicechannel0,name=vdagent
>
> Now with the miracle of the "ps" command, I am looking at the run
> string that virsh is using. I find the following in the run
> string (let me know if you want to see the entire string):
>
> /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm ... \
>
> -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5
> ...\
>
> -chardev spicevmc,id=charchannel0,name=vdagent ...\
>
> -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-\
> serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,\
> id=channel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0
>
> Seems to me I have what is required. Maybe not? Do you see
> anything wrong?
>
> And still no "/dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0" so
> "/etc/rc.d/init.d/spice-vdagentd" will not start, whether
> or not my guest is running.
No offence, but are you sure that you do try to start spice vdagent in the guest? ( as Christophe asked you earlier: "Just to be 100% sure we are on the same line, the agent runs inside the guest, not on the host or on the machine running the spice client?"). Because you are writing about Windows guest but trying to start spice-vdagentd.
If you have a Windows guest, please install Windows spice agent on guest - http://spice-space.org/download/binaries/vdagent-win32_20110801.zip (Spice User manual chapter 6.1.2 http://spice-space.org/docs/spice_user_manual.pdf).
>
> I am at a total loss. I really, really need the clipboard to
> work. What am I doing wrong? What have I missed? I am
> very frustrated: I know you guys got it to work, why can't I?
>
> Many thanks,
> -T
>
>
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