[Spice-devel] Need help getting qxl and vdi_port installed in XP guest

[Todd And Margo Chester]

On 11/30/2011 01:34 AM, Alon Levy wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:55:38PM -0800, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Help!
>>
>> This is really two topics I need help with. I am trying to get the
>> qxl driver
>> and the vdiport drivers installed into my XP Pro SP3 guest.
>>
>>
>> 1) XP Device Manager: vport0p1:
>>
>> In the user's manual, page 15, section 6.1.1, it states:
>>
>
> Unfortunately that user manual should be updated, that information is
> old.
>
>> vdiport driver install and removal is performed similarly to the QXL driver,
>> but this time using the vdi_port.inf and vdi_port.sys files instead.
>>
>> I have scoured
>> http://spice-space.org/download/binaries/
>>
>> looking for vdi_port.inf and vdi_port.sys with no success. Am I blind?
>>
>
> We have stopped using vdi_port, it is used by older spice versions, in
> newer vdagent and qemu we reuse the virtio-serial pci device, that has
> seperate drivers.

Hi Alon,

Hopefully, EL 6.2 will have a lot of your new updated in it.

Were do I find a (legacy) copy of the old vdi port?

This is the PCI ID, if that helps:
{6FDE7547-1B65-48AE-B628-80BE62016026}\VIOSERIALPORT\4&263E99FC&0&01

Many thanks,
-T

Scientific Linux 6.1:

# rpm -qa \*virt\*
python-virtinst-0.500.5-3.el6.noarch
libvirt-0.8.7-18.el6_1.1.x86_64
libvirt-client-0.8.7-18.el6_1.1.x86_64
virt-manager-0.8.6-4.el6.noarch
libvirt-python-0.8.7-18.el6_1.1.x86_64

# rpm -qa \*spice\*
spice-server-0.8.0-1.el6.x86_64
spice-client-0.8.0-2.el6.x86_64
spice-vdagent-0.6.3-8.el6.x86_64
spice-protocol-0.8.0-1.el6.noarch

# rpm -qa \*kvm\*
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.160.el6_1.2.x86_64