[fedora-virt] Why is finding windows spice drivers so hard?

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Dec 15 15:11:52 UTC 2010


On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 07:33:29AM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:35:47 +0200
> Alon Levy wrote:
> 
> > The rest of the windows binaries:
> >  client - the client.
> >  virtio-serial driver - for agent (copy-paste, better mouse, automatic resize for full screen,
> >   wan performance by guest changes)
> 
> I finally figured that out, but finding an example of the qemu
> arguments required to actually create a proper virtio serial
> device for the agent to use was also a major challenge. I did
> finally stumble across a wiki page with an example I copied
> by rote.

In latest libvirt (not in Fedora 14 I don't think) you should be able
to add:

  <graphics type='spice' port='-1' tlsPort='-1' autoport='yes'
            listen='127.0.0.1' />

http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsGraphics

Rich.

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