[Spice-devel] Using QXL & Spice with Windows Host & QEMU

[Frediano Ziglio]

> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> when using Qemu 4.2.0 with a Windows host, qemu-system-x86_64 reports:
> "QXL VGA not available"
> 
> I used the following Qemu args for testing:
> qemu-system-x86-x64.exe -accel hax -machine q35 -m 4GB -cdrom
> xubuntu-20.04-desktop-amd64.iso
> 
> Using either "-vga stdt" or "-vga vmware" works. The performance is just
> not that good.
> 
> Do I have a chance to get that up and running with a Windows 10 host and
> Qemu?
> 
> Thanks,
> Laurens

Hi,
  I suppose from the .exe extension you are using on Windows.
Probably that executable has no SPICE compiled in, not all package it on
Windows, it was added officially in last version (0.14.3).

Regards,
  Frediano