[fedora-virt] No keyboard with Spice/qxl...

[Alon Levy]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 02:44:40PM +0200, Georgios Petasis wrote:
> Στις 8/3/2012 13:47, ο/η Alon Levy έγραψε:
> >On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 01:23:02PM +0200, Georgios Petasis wrote:
> >>Στις 8/3/2012 11:30, ο/η Alon Levy έγραψε:
> >>>ok, if the VM runs on a separate pc, of course it doesn't work - I
> >>>wrongly assumed it was on the same pc as virt-manager. You need to
> >>>capture the interface that the spice connection is on - so the
> >>>network connection, which would be em1 / eth0. Wireshark has a
> >>>neat mode where it shows you the packets per interface before
> >>>starting a capture on a specific interface
> >>>(menu->capture->interfaces, or ctrl-i).
> >>Dear Alon,
> >>
> >>I am a little confused.
> >>I have a PC. I have started a VNC server on the pc. I run
> >>virt-manager inside this vnc server. I run the VM from this
> >>virt-manager (so virt-manager&  VM run in the pc that the vnc server
> >>runs).
> >>And from a second pc, I have a vnc client, that I see all these.
> >OK, I didn't understand correctly, thanks for the patience.
> >
> >>I have uploaded a capture from em1 here:
> >>http://server.intellitech.gr/spice-em1.cap.bz2
> >>
> >So this one will be pointless since the spice connection is over
> >loopback on your headless pc.
> >
> >So you are using wireshark on the headless PC via VNC?
> Yes, wireshark runs on the same pc as the vnc server, virt-manager & the VM.
> I control it through a vnc client, from another pc.
> >  I don't see any
> >TCP connections being created, as I would expect if virt-manager starter
> >the spice connection after the capture is started. Can you please make
> >sure virt-manager is closed before you start the capture?
> I have rebooted the pc, I have started wireshark, and then started
> virt-manager & the VM. The VM booted (windows 7 64 bit), I pressed a
> few keys, then I opened the start menu, some more key presses, and
> finally I stopped the VM (normal shutdown from windows).
> 
> All this interaction is here:
> http://server.intellitech.gr/spice-wholevm.cap.bz2
> 
> If something is still missing, I think that it is possible it does
> not exist.
> 

It's there, just the dissector thinks it VNC, but the initial bytes say
REDQ. Looking into it, thanks for the trouble.

> Regards,
> 
> George