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Why is finding windows spice drivers so hard?
by Alon Levy 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

Sorry for not making this a reply to the original (I hope the subject will be enough), not sure how to do that. Reply inline. On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:04:05PM +0200, Dor Laor wrote: > On 12/14/2010 01:39 PM, Glauber Costa wrote: > >People, > > > >There is this guy - actually, a very active guy that helps us a lot in > >terms of bug reporting and testing - in fedora-virt asking a couple of > >questions about spice that are left unanswered. > > > >Can some of our spice folks take a look and it and try to give him a > >hand? > > > > Adding spice-list > > > > >[fedora-virt] Why is finding windows spice drivers so hard?.eml > > > >Subject: > >[fedora-virt] Why is finding windows spice drivers so hard? > >From: > >Tom Horsley <horsley1953(a)gmail.com> > >Date: > >Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:09:14 -0500 > > > >To: > >Fedora Virt <virt(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> > > > > > >Is there some conspiracy to obfuscate the best place to > >find windows guest spice drivers? People seem to invent > >random names for the files, so you don't know if > >it is an update of something with a old name or not. > >Sometimes there are .iso files, sometimes .zip. Most of > >the web pages offering downloads don't have dates, > >so you can't tell which are the latest versions. Enough conspiracies right now, this isn't another one. > > > >Why is this so hard? > > > >Are the spice-space.org versions on the downloads > >page always the best versions to grab? And if so, > >what the heck do I actually need? I know qxl > >is for video, but what the heck do the other > >windows binaries actually do? Why do I want them? > > Yes, spice-space.org/download.html is the canonical location. The source repositories are hosted by freedesktop, also linked from spice-space.org, including the qxl windows driver. Latest windows driver is http://www.spice-space.org/download/binaries/qxl-win32-0.6.1.zip 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) guest agent - the agent to run in the windows guest for said features libraries - only required if you want to build from source. A collection of all the dependencies of the client (to build the driver you need only the spice-protocol and windows kernel driver stack). > >I found a file named kvm-guest-drivers-windows-061510.iso > >when testing a while back and it seemed to work, but > >also seems likely to be pretty old these days. Where is that from? > >_______________________________________________ > >virt mailing list > >virt(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > >https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt > ----- End forwarded message -----

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Fedora Virtualization Status
by Justin Forbes 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

Fedora 14 - We have 68 open bugs, 8 of which have fixes in awaiting updates. - 6 bugs have been closed in the past week. Fedora 15 - Upcoming Deadlines: 2011-01-25 Feature Submission Deadline 2011-02-08 Feature Freeze--Planning & Development Ends 2011-02-08 Branch Fedora 15 from Rawhide-- Branch Freeze 2011-02-15 Software String Freeze 2011-02-15 Alpha Change Deadline 2011-03-01 Alpha Release 2011-03-15 Software Translation Deadline 2011-03-22 Beta Change Deadline Features 100% Complete 2011-04-05 Beta Release 2011-04-25 Final Change Deadline 2011-04-26 Compose 'Final' RC 2011-05-10 Fedora 15 Final Release - Feature submission deadline is fast approaching, let's get those feature submissions done. == Bugs of importance: == - 662380 Encrypted disks do not work Using virsh to create the encrypted disk, resulting disk is unusable. - 655280 libvirt does not support vendor/product based USB device passthrough with QEMU - 656943 KVM guest crashes if vmware vga option is used Reports of qemu crashing when a vga option is passed, using debian guests - 589130 USB disk not marked as removable USB Mass storage devices are not marked as removable to a guest. Bug has been filed upstream as well.

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^^^ SPICE - REMOTE CLIENT
by Tom Horsley 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

How do I get rid of the uber-annoying SPICE - REMOTE CLIENT semi-transparent logo at the top of my spice client display window? It clutters things up (especially when I have a program running maximized in my virtual machine). I'm using fedora 14 standard repos for all my qemu/spice software, and a magic wrapper around the qemu-kvm emulator to fiddle my options and enable spice. Please don't tell me rebuilding the source is the only way (I don't even know where it is coming from - the spicec client or the qxl video driver).

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Subject: Fedora Virtualization Status
by KC8LDO 09 Dec '10

09 Dec '10

>Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:30:14 -0600 >From: "Justin M. Forbes" <jmforbes(a)linuxtx.org> >Subject: [fedora-virt] Fedora Virtualization Status >To: Fedora Virtualization List <fedora-virt(a)redhat.com> >Message-ID: <1291735814.4864.1.camel(a)fedora64.linuxtx.org> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" >Fedora 14 >- We have 68 open bugs, 7 of which have fixes in awaiting updates. >- 4 bugs have been closed in the past week. >Fedora 15 >- Upcoming Deadlines: > 2011-01-25 Feature Submission Deadline > 2011-02-08 Feature Freeze--Planning & Development Ends > 2011-02-08 Branch Fedora 15 from Rawhide-- Branch Freeze > 2011-02-15 Software String Freeze > 2011-02-15 Alpha Change Deadline > 2011-03-01 Alpha Release > 2011-03-15 Software Translation Deadline > 2011-03-22 Beta Change Deadline Features 100% Complete > 2011-04-05 Beta Release > 2011-04-25 Final Change Deadline > 2011-04-26 Compose 'Final' RC > 2011-05-10 Fedora 15 Final Release >- Feature submission deadline is fast approaching, let's get those feature > submissions done. > == Bugs of importance: == >- 655280 libvirt does not support vendor/product based USB device > passthrough with QEMU >- 656943 KVM guest crashes if vmware vga option is used > Reports of qemu crashing when a vga option is passed, using debian guests >- 589130 USB disk not marked as removable > USB Mass storage devices are not marked as removable to a guest. > Bug has been filed upstream as well. Fedora 13 ? 579348 fixed for F13 distro? Fedora 13 is still considered under active maintenance but this issue seems to be ignored in preference to 14 and now apparently 15. To be honest is this problem going to be addressed or not?

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Fedora Virtualization Status
by Justin Forbes 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

Fedora 14 - We have 68 open bugs, 7 of which have fixes in awaiting updates. - 4 bugs have been closed in the past week. Fedora 15 - Upcoming Deadlines: 2011-01-25 Feature Submission Deadline 2011-02-08 Feature Freeze--Planning & Development Ends 2011-02-08 Branch Fedora 15 from Rawhide-- Branch Freeze 2011-02-15 Software String Freeze 2011-02-15 Alpha Change Deadline 2011-03-01 Alpha Release 2011-03-15 Software Translation Deadline 2011-03-22 Beta Change Deadline Features 100% Complete 2011-04-05 Beta Release 2011-04-25 Final Change Deadline 2011-04-26 Compose 'Final' RC 2011-05-10 Fedora 15 Final Release - Feature submission deadline is fast approaching, let's get those feature submissions done. == Bugs of importance: == - 655280 libvirt does not support vendor/product based USB device passthrough with QEMU - 656943 KVM guest crashes if vmware vga option is used Reports of qemu crashing when a vga option is passed, using debian guests - 589130 USB disk not marked as removable USB Mass storage devices are not marked as removable to a guest. Bug has been filed upstream as well.

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update of spice packages possible for virt-preview repof13?
by KC8LDO 04 Dec '10

04 Dec '10

Good luck. I've been promised that an update to the normal F-13 qemu-KVM RPM's would be done which I think has the fix included to prevent Windows XP and 2000 crashing on reboot when doing the GUI part of their installation. I have yet to see them. Regards; Leland C. Scott KC8LDO

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Fedora 12 i686 - Virtual Machine Manager won't start
by Brendan Whelan 03 Dec '10

03 Dec '10

Hi, Around three months ago, on my test/development laptop, I setup a virtual service and cloned it. I used the two versions without any problem for a few weeks. Today, I tried to open the Virtual Machine Manager but got: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 404, in <module> main() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 345, in main from virtManager.engine import vmmEngine File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 39, in <module> from virtManager.details import vmmDetails File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/details.py", line 35, in <module> from virtManager.serialcon import vmmSerialConsole File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/serialcon.py", line 22, in <module> import vte ImportError: /lib/libncurses.so.5: undefined symbol: _nc_set_no_padding I have updated the F12 rebooted but the problem persists. Does anyone know how I can overcome this problem? Thanks, Brendan

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update of spice packages possible for virt-preview repo f13?
by Gianluca Cecchi 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Hello, on my F13 and virt-preview repo there is spice-protocol-0.6.0-1.fc13.noarch I see that F14 was indeed shipped with 0.6.0 based packages. Then on 19Oct spice-protocol-0.6.3-1.fc14.noarch.rpm was released as an update. I would like to test packages that require 0.6.3 version of spice components. Is it planned to refresh the virt-preview repo for f13? Or now that we are on f14 I have to upgrade to that version to benefit from newer updates? Thanks Gianluca

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Where can I find information on pinning the host os to a cpu set in RHEL6?
by Henry Pepper 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Hi I'm trying to find out how I can pin the host OS to a cpu set, e.g. cpu0 on RHEL6. On Xen I simply pin the Domain-0 to a cpu set. But I don't seem to be able to identify the host OS in RHEL6/KVM. Any suggestions are welcomed. Thanks Henry

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