[Spice-devel] Windows Guest Tools 0.2

[Han Pilmeyer]

On 16/11/2012 10:24, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> I've just pushed a new release of the SPICE Guest Tools for Windows. This
> includes the virtio-win 0.1-30 drivers [1], a git snapshot of the Windows
> agent built with mingw (git SHA1: b264830), and a newer version of the QXL
> driver which has arbitrary resolution support.
> You can download it from
> http://spice-space.org/download/binaries/spice-guest-tools/spice-guest-tools-0.2.exe
Christophe, for a few moments (i.e. the necessary reboots that Windows 
seems to be so fond of), I actually believed that this was just what the 
doctor ordered. Unfortunately reality struck shortly after that.

If have a long list of problems with KVM (running in an up to date 
Fedora 17) with my Windows 7 guest. I've been holding off to report 
them, until I'm relatively sure that I have the correct set of guest 
drivers installed. At least this is what your new upload has done for me 
today. I have a list of what I had before and now and (apart from QXL) 
the drivers seem to have the same version. The drivers I used before 
came from many different sources, all with very different version 
numbers, e.g. virtio-win-0.1-30, RHEV-toolsSetup_3.0_39, 
spice-guest-tools-0.1 (and now 0.2), virtio-win-1.5.3-1. This is all 
very confusing. Do you think it would be possible in the future to get 
these version numbers somewhat aligned, so that the users know what to use?

The biggest difference I see is in the vdagent and vdservice log files. 
In the previous versions I used, the messages contained a date and time 
(which seems useful). The new ones do not. Below are some messages from 
the old and new log versions of the log messages. The old one:

1312::INFO::2012-11-16 09:27:49,362::VDAgent::run::***Agent started in 
session 1***
1312::INFO::2012-11-16 09:27:49,362::log_version::1.1.0.1009
1312::INFO::2012-11-16 
09:27:49,363::DesktopLayout::consistent_displays::#qxls 1 #others 0
1312::INFO::2012-11-16 09:27:49,364::VDAgent::connect_pipe::Connected to 
service pipe

And the new ones:

3412::INFO::,000::run::***Agent started in session 1***
3412::INFO::,000::log_version::0.5.1.0
3412::INFO::,000::consistent_displays::#qxls 1 #others 0
3412::INFO::,000::connect_pipe::Connected to service pipe
3412::INFO::,000::send_announce_capabilities::Sending capabilities:
3412::INFO::,000::send_announce_capabilities::37

Like I said, I have many problems with the Windows 7 guest, but the most 
annoying problem is that cut/paste between the host and guest does not 
work reliably. Usually it works one or two times after the guest boots, 
but then it stops. I see messages like 
"VDAgent::on_clipboard_grab::Unsupported clipboard format" in the log 
file. I can not give you the exact messages at the moment as cut/paste 
has stopped working again. :-(

Any suggestions?




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