[Spice-devel] spice crashes

[Trebor Forban]

Not meaning to rub anyone the wrong way, I would still like to note a
few unqualified observations:

I suspect the problems may be within the spice-guest-tools.

With an older version of the spice-guest-tools (I believe
spice-guest-tools-0.1.exe) there was a bug/race which frequently
caused guest hangs while trying to boot win7 if smp was set to 1. I
picked up a patched version on a mailing list where this problem was
redeemed.

I believe, that this fix was in spice-guest-tools-0.2.exe, but
spice-guest-tools-0.2.exe had the problem that the vdagent would
occasionally fail to start, but otherwise the system was very stable.

With  spice-guest-tools-0.3.exe and spice-guest-tools-0.52.exe the
vdagent starts reliably, but the hang at boot is back, at least with
smp=1 and NIC_MODEL='virtio' and the system is quit unstable.

Please take this all with a grain of salt, as all the while various
other software components have been changing; when not using redhat or
fedora qemu with spice is very much a moving target.

Best regards,
TF


2013/2/21 Trebor Forban <trebor.forban at gmail.com>:
> Hi Alon,
>
> 2013/2/21 Alon Levy <alevy at redhat.com>:
>> What is the qemu command line? Are you running with kvm or with tcg?
>
> + export SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0
> + SDL_VIDEO_X11_DGAMOUSE=0
> + /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name master99,process=master99 -cpu
> qemu64 -rtc base=localtime -enable-kvm -runas master -smp
> 1,sockets=1,cores=1,threads=1 -m 2048 -redir tcp:2299::22 -monitor
> tcp:0.0.0.0:4499,server,nowait -soundhw hda -device intel-hda -device
> hda-duplex -net nic,model=e1000,macaddr=00:04:23:45:67:88 -net user
> -spice port=5599,disable-ticketing -device
> virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x6 -vga qxl -global
> qxl-vga.vram_size=67108864 -device
> qxl,id=video1,vram_size=67108864,bus=pci.0,addr=0x8 -device
> virtio-serial -chardev spicevmc,id=vdagent,name=vdagent -device
> virtserialport,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.spice.0 -readconfig
> /etc/qemu/ich9-ehci-uhci.cfg -chardev
> spicevmc,name=usbredir,id=usbredirchardev1 -device
> usb-redir,chardev=usbredirchardev1,id=usbredirdev1,debug=3 -chardev
> spicevmc,name=usbredir,id=usbredirchardev2 -device
> usb-redir,chardev=usbredirchardev2,id=usbredirdev2,debug=3 -chardev
> spicevmc,name=usbredir,id=usbredirchardev3 -device
> usb-redir,chardev=usbredirchardev3,id=usbredirdev3,debug=3 -fda
> fat:floppy:/opt/swvm/user/master/win7/var/vmdisks/fda -drive
> file=/opt/swvm/user/master/win7/var/vmdisks/userdisks/syst_delta.qcow2,index=1,media=disk,aio=native,cache=writeback,if=ide
> -drive file=/opt/swvm/user/master/win7/var/vmdisks/userdisks/user.raw,index=2,media=disk,aio=native,cache=none,if=ide
>
> I will recompile with debugging symbols.
>
> Best Regards,
> TF
>
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> Hello Alon,
>>>
>>> ok, I've got the VM running under valgrind now, but valgrind quits
>>> logging due to excessive errors.
>>>
>>> The log is attached.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> TF
>>>
>>> 2013/2/21 Trebor Forban <trebor.forban at gmail.com>:
>>> > Hello Alon,
>>> >
>>> > forget my last mail, it was just noise. I had an error in my conf.
>>> >
>>> > Best regards,
>>> > TF
>>>