[Spice-devel] vdagent-win32 update

[Arnon Gilboa]

Hi Mike,
Thanks for the update.
This behavior means that for some reason, the virtio-serial device was 
closed.
In this case, mouse mode switches from client to server (assuming you 
don't use usb tablet), and c&p stops working.
The most reasonable scenario for this is a crash of vdservice for some 
reason, which we want to find out.
Please verify that is the case - look for vdservice & vdagent in the 
taskmgr.
In addition, please send the monitor output of qemu around the time of 
the  failure.
Unfortunately, the vdservice & vdagent logs don't say anything that can 
help us :(
Try to catch me at irc.gimp.net #spice to debug the issue online.
Waiting for your update,
Arnon

Mike Hinz wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 14:56 +0200, Arnon Gilboa wrote:
>   
>> Hi there,
>> No updates for some time. Have you tried using the debug vdagent I 
>> posted a while ago?
>> A newer version with several fixes can be found at spice-space.org 
>> download page, or directly at:
>> http://www.spice-space.org/download/binaries/vdagent-win32_20111124.zip
>> Please update with your results.
>> Regards,
>> Arnon
>>
>>     
>
> (resent.  sent from wrong email account the first time).
>
> Arnon,
>
> I've gotten back on this problem and have done some more testing.  
>
> First, there was a new version of qemu that I installed from the F15
> virt-preview repos, 0.15.1.  Then within my WinXP VM, I installed the
> new vdagent dated 11/24/2011.  
>
> I can say that things have changed, but the problem is still present.
> Let me try to describe.  First though are the contents of the log files:
>
> Now, if whenever I first attempt to copy/paste, I can always do 1 and
> sometimes up to 4 successful copy/paste operations.  However, copy/paste
> will then abruptly fail to operate after that initial success.
> Interestingly, there's one additional thing that I always note.  I've
> disabled the USB Graphics Tablet function on the VM and with now I note
> that initially, the cursor is NOT captured within the VM AND the
> copy/paste operation works!  However, after a few copy/paste operations,
> the cursor becomes trapped (the VM window header bar has "Press
> Control_L+ALT_L to release the cursor) AND the copy/paste operation then
> fails! 
>
> When the above occurs, I can stop and start the vdservice and copy/paste
> will again work for a very brief time, until the cursor again becomes
> trapped.  
>
> I've also tried enabling the USB Graphics Tablet and essentially the
> same thing occurs;  that is copy/paste works for a very short time and
> then fails.  However, with the Tablet enabled, the cursor never becomes
> trapped.
>
> I hope the above is helpful.  Please let me know if you need more info
> or want me to try something else.
>
> Thanks!
>
>