Why is finding windows spice drivers so hard?
by Alon Levy
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
>
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13 years, 4 months
Fedora Virtualization Status
by Justin Forbes
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.
13 years, 4 months
^^^ SPICE - REMOTE CLIENT
by Tom Horsley
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).
13 years, 4 months
Subject: Fedora Virtualization Status
by KC8LDO
>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?
13 years, 4 months
Fedora Virtualization Status
by Justin Forbes
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.
13 years, 4 months
update of spice packages possible for virt-preview repof13?
by KC8LDO
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
13 years, 4 months
Fedora 12 i686 - Virtual Machine Manager won't start
by Brendan Whelan
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
13 years, 4 months
update of spice packages possible for virt-preview repo f13?
by Gianluca Cecchi
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
13 years, 4 months
