[Spice-devel] failed to initialize directx in w7

[Alon Levy]

On 08/21/2014 04:48 AM, arnaud gaboury wrote:
> I am not sure this issue is tight to Red Hat qxl GPU driver, but I
> can't initialize directxX on a guest windows 7.
> 
> Trying to start a game, I get the merror message :
> Failed to initialize directX
> 
> Of course, directX is installed on the w7 guest, and properly.
> The dxdiag command, a directx diagnostic tool, does not show any error.
> Some summary under the video :
> 
> Driver name : Red Hat QXL GPU
> Processor type : SeaBIOS VBEC(C) 2011
> 
> No Directx functionality are available (Direct Draw, Direct3D, AGP texture)
> 
> I am not a windows expert, but I would like to know if DirectX is
> compatible with QXL driver.

No it isn't. There is no support for it in our drivers.

> If not, what is the process to be able to run directX on the windows
> guest ? If both are compatible, what did I miss ? The VM is working
> perfectly with virtio & qxl.
> Please find below my virt-install command:

This won't help since it's a driver problem.

> -----------------------------
> virt-install --connect qemu:///system --name=tintinWinoz --memory 4096
> --cpu host-model-only --os-variant=win7 --disk /myVM/tintin --boot
> cdrom,hd --virt-type kvm --graphics spice --controller
> scsi,model=virtio-scsi --cdrom /dev/cdrom --disk
> /drawer/myIso/w7.iso,device=cdrom
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> I thereafter installed manually from the w7 guest virtio & qxl drivers.
> 
> Thank you for advices.
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