[Spice-devel] virtio-net windows drivers

Tue Jul 16 09:04:47 PDT 2013

Hi, I solved the problem removing the network adapter in the base image and
attacching a new virtio network adapter .
Latest drivers work fine .
Regards
Il giorno 16/lug/2013 10:55, "Ignazio Cassano" <ignaziocassano at gmail.com>
ha scritto:

> Hi all, I executed a complete test to identify the problem.
> Firstly I need to exaplain what I am doing.
>
> I created a windows xp guest with sp3 , virtio net and spice agent.
> I used virtio-win-0.1-59.iso and spice-guest-tools-0.59.
> This is a base image for all other vm xp .
> The base image works fine.
> I used sysprep on the base image and then I created another xp guest on a
> qcow2 disk  which uses the base image.
> When the new guest starts it does  not get the network card because it
> asks for drivers.
> Confirming the virtio drivers automatic installation (because drivers are
> present in the base image) and rebooting the guest,
> it can see the virtio network card but it takes a lot of cpu and it cannot
> be used.
>
> I repeated the test installing virtio-win-01.30.iso drivers and
> spice-guest-tools-0.3  on the base image.
> The new guest now does not ask to install the virtio net drivers but only
> the virtio scsi adapter drivers and  it works fine.
>
> Could you help me ?
> I tried sysprep with several options : either with plug-and play flagged
> or without it
>
> I tried also using the base image without virtio net adapter, using the
> rtl net adapter and the guest which uses the base image works fine.
>
> So I think the problem is using sysprep with last virtio net adapter or
> last  spice-guest-tools .... :-(
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> 2013/7/15 Ignazio Cassano <ignaziocassano at gmail.com>
>
>> Hi, also with spice-guest-tools 1.59 the driver version is: 51.64.104.5900
>>
>> I found the UsePublicEvents ...it is init.UsePublicEvents and it is
>> disabled
>>
>>
>> 2013/7/15 Ignazio Cassano <ignaziocassano at gmail.com>
>>
>>> The previous email I sent whas with spice-guest-tools 0.52.
>>> Now I am going to install 0.59
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/7/15 Ignazio Cassano <ignaziocassano at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>> I booted my vm in safe mode and I can see drive information:
>>>>
>>>> Redhat virtio ethernet adapter version 51.64.104.5900
>>>>
>>>> In advanced I cannot see any information about *UsePublicEvents*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2013/7/15 Ignazio Cassano <ignaziocassano at gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>>> Oh, I am sorry. I must wait a lot for looking information you
>>>>> requested, because when I boot with virtio net enabled the xp vm takes a
>>>>> long time to log on and cpu usage is very very high.
>>>>> When I'll have information you requested I'll send you.
>>>>> Many thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2013/7/15 <agilboa at redhat.com>
>>>>>
>>>>>  On 07/15/2013 12:54 PM, Ignazio Cassano wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am using fedora 17 with kvm ...
>>>>>> I created a bridge and on the same britge windows xp with
>>>>>> spice-guest-tools 0.3 works fine.
>>>>>> On the bridge the guest created a virtio net adapter.
>>>>>> I cannot see drivers details in fedora 17 virt-manager
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yan meant driver details on the *guest*:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Device Manager -> NetKVM device -> Properties
>>>>>> In the Driver tab see the driver version.
>>>>>> In the Advanced tab you see driver params.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2013/7/15 Yan Vugenfirer <yvugenfi at redhat.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Ignazio - the driver parameters are found in Device Manager ->
>>>>>>> NetKVM device -> Properties -> "Advanced" tab.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  What network configuration on the host are you using?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Bests regards,
>>>>>>> Yan.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  On Jul 15, 2013, at 12:22 PM, Ignazio Cassano wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> mmmm
>>>>>>> I read something about UsePublichEvents ....Seems it is supported in
>>>>>>> Fedora 19 but I have fedora 17
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2013/7/15 Ignazio Cassano <ignaziocassano at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Vladim, I do not know what is "UsePublichEvents" ....
>>>>>>>> where can I check it ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2013/7/15 Vadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe at redhat.com>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi Inazio,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Do you have UsePublishEvents enabled or disabled? If it's on you
>>>>>>>>> can try turning it off.
>>>>>>>>> In any case it's better to wait Yan or Dmitry to comment on this
>>>>>>>>> issue.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>>>> Vadim.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>>>> From: "Ignazio Cassano" <ignaziocassano at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>> To: agilboa at redhat.com
>>>>>>>>> Cc: spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org, "Vadim Rozenfeld" <
>>>>>>>>> vrozenfe at redhat.com>, "Yan Vugenfirer" <yvugenfi at redhat.com>
>>>>>>>>> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 5:53:58 PM
>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: virtio-net windows drivers
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi, I think the virtio net driver is released with
>>>>>>>>> spice-guest-tool ...
>>>>>>>>> Is it correct ?
>>>>>>>>> In other words ....
>>>>>>>>> I installed virtio net and virtio disk drivers contained in
>>>>>>>>> virtio-win-0.1-59.iso downloaded from fedora.
>>>>>>>>> Then I installed spice-guest-tools-0.59.exe downloaded from
>>>>>>>>> spice-space.org.
>>>>>>>>> Seems spice.-guest-tools have their own net driver ....or not ?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 2013/7/15 <agilboa at redhat.com>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> >  Please check on which virtio-net driver version have you
>>>>>>>>> encountered the
>>>>>>>>> > issues.
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> > Thanks,
>>>>>>>>> > Arnon
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> > On 07/15/2013 10:36 AM, Ignazio Cassano wrote:
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> > Many thanks.
>>>>>>>>> > I am wiating  their news.
>>>>>>>>> > At this thime I solved using spice-guest-tools 0.3
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> > 2013/7/15 <agilboa at redhat.com>
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> >>  Cc'ing Vadim & Yan, the vio-net windows driver developers.
>>>>>>>>> >> I guess they have better answers.
>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>> >> Arnon
>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>> >> On 07/15/2013 09:12 AM, Ignazio Cassano wrote:
>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>> >> Hi, I am sorry If I disturb you again.
>>>>>>>>> >> I am using last stace-guest-tools (0.59) on my windows xp sp3
>>>>>>>>> guests but
>>>>>>>>> >> I got some issues on virtio net like the following bug:
>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-06/msg04744.html
>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>> >>  Have you ever heard anything about it ?
>>>>>>>>> >> I am using fedora 17 kvm hypervisor.
>>>>>>>>> >> On the same host I virtualized windows xp guests 8-9 month ago
>>>>>>>>> and I did
>>>>>>>>> >> not get any issue.
>>>>>>>>> >> Do you think there is any issue with new versions of windows
>>>>>>>>> guest tools ?
>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>> >>  Regards
>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>> >> 2013/5/16 Ignazio Cassano <ignaziocassano at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>> >>
>>>>>>>>> >>> Many thanks.
>>>>>>>>> >>> I received the package
>>>>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>>>>> >>> 2013/5/16 <agilboa at redhat.com>
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