[fedora-virt] spice and qemu 0.14

[Alon Levy]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 08:36:43PM +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> I followed the post and compiled all with
> rpmbuild -bb ./qemu.spec
> then
> - rpm -e qemu-kvm qemu-system-x86 qemu-img qemu-common libvirt
> - rpm -Uvh qemu-kvm-0.14.0-2.fc14.x86_64.rpm
> qemu-kvm-tools-0.14.0-2.fc14.x86_64.rpm
> qemu-system-x86-0.14.0-2.fc14.x86_64.rpm qemu-img-0.14.0-2.fc14.x86_64.rpm
> qemu-common-0.14.0-2.fc14.x86_64.rpm
> - yum install libvirt (from virt-preview repo)
> 
> I'm now able to connect to my w2k3 guest with spicec and can get audio
> working too, so there is a step forward.
> 
> Only problem is that in w2k3 I'm forced to have the video card driver set as
> vga, because if I install the qxl driver I then reboot
> and the w2k3 guest remains in black and then powers off....
> In  /var/log/libvirt/qemu/w2k3.log I can see:
> qemu-kvm: /home/gcecchi/rpmbuild/BUILD/qemu-kvm-0.14.0/qemu-kvm.c:1724:
> kvm_mutex_unlock: Assertion `!cpu_single_env' failed.
> 2011-03-13 20:22:58.116: shutting down
> ...
> 
> I don't know if the qxl driver is supposed to work in w2k3 (I'm using the
> qxl-win32-0.6.1.zip file for drivers) or if this is an expected behaviour
> 
> Gianluca
> 
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Boris Derzhavets <bderzhavets at yahoo.com>wrote:
> 

I'd appreciate if you tried the following branch and tell me if it works
on your windows 2003 vm. It works here on a fedora 64 bit and winxp sp3:

    git://anongit.freedesktop.org/~alon/qemu locking.fixes.candidate.1

Alon

> > Gerd's Hoffman patch ( http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/84704/) seems to
> > path through limited testing :-
> >
> >
> > http://bderzhavets.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/qemu-kvm-0-14-patching-via-gerds-hoffman-spiceqxl-locking-fix-for-qemu-kvm-on-f14/
> >
> > I was able to connect via spice to F14,SL6 KVM running with updated
> > emulator by
> > virt-manager.
> >
> > Boris.
> > Env : F14+Libvirt Preview
> >
> > --- On *Sat, 3/12/11, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com>* wrote:
> >
> >
> > From: Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [fedora-virt] spice and qemu 0.14
> > To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com>
> > Cc: "virt at lists.fedoraproject.org" <virt at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> > Date: Saturday, March 12, 2011, 12:44 PM
> >
> > On Saturday, March 12, 2011, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com<http://mc/compose?to=rjones@redhat.com>>
> > wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:55:30AM +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> > >> Is there any ETA for spice working again with qemu 0.14?
> > >
> > > Sorry, but there are no hard guarantees for anything in Fedora.  The
> > > project is run by volunteers.  Even people working for Red Hat work on
> > > RHEL first and foremost.
> > >
> > > Maybe contribute the required patch / updates / work yourself?
> > >
> > > Rich.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat
> > http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
> > > Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com
> > > Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#)
> > > http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora
> > >
> > Actually I didn't mean eta in its formal way... Sorry for my miswrite ...
> > Not the best acronym for my purposes...
> > To explain better: I meant that I'm using virt-preview repo in f14 and
> > would like to further test spice and give feedback again to have then
> > a better f15...
> > If I remember correctly there was a post saying that an incoming patch
> > was arriving ..
> > Gianluca
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