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Same black screen. So I guess it +has to do with the server (qemu spice support). Fedora qemu package had +a lot of spice patches, all merged in qemu 1.0. Upstream said it +shouldn't be needed to apply the patches though (and I didn't). + +There was also some other spice client, maybe spicec, but that depended +on yet another package (cegui or something), but an older version than +what Cauldron had. Upstream said they'd replace it with a gtk version +(which I already packaged), so I excluded the old client from the spice +package. + +><i> > So it seems it doesn't work anyone :-( +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > Did you launch it from the terminal? Any debug output? +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > > There's not much documentation so I'm not sure exactly what's supposed to +</I>><i> > > happen versus what is happening. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > You should be seeing the VM. It uses something new called 'splice'. I +</I>><i> > think that is where the error lies. The Fedora version of qemu 0.15 had +</I>><i> > some patches which they dropped in qemu 1.0. I'm hoping qemu 1.0 solves +</I>><i> > the issues, but wasn't able to compile it yesterday. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > "Splice" is pretty nice as you can e.g. share your USB somehow between +</I>><i> > the host and the VM (gnome-boxes has a checkbox, but no clue about the +</I>><i> > technical details). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I think you mean 'spice', which is a remote desktop protocol, which covers +</I>><i> display, sound, device sharing, printing etc. (AFAIU). +</I> +Indeed :) + +><i> I am more interested in the spice support in the libvirt/virt-manager tools +</I>><i> ... but I am not running cauldron. +</I> +I think I changed libvirt to support spice, but not sure. I'm focussing +on gnome-boxes and I had to package a lot of things to get it to +actually run a VM. Virt-manager does work though (started Mageia 1 dvd +in a VM). + +><i> > > I'll be happy to do some more testing if you can give me some pointers as +</I>><i> > > to what I'm looking for. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > The debug output from the terminal would be nice, as well as +</I>><i> > $HOME/.libvirt/qemu/log/*. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > I really want to get this working before the next Mageia testversion is +</I>><i> > released.. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I would like to see virt-manager with spice support, and support in the +</I>><i> distribution for spice when a VM under qemu with spice support (spice-vdagent +</I>><i> stuff). +</I> +Any pointers on how to add support in the distribution? I guess maybe I +should try to make a VM in gnome-boxes and start a Fedora iso. + +-- +Regards, +Olav +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="011333.html">[Mageia-dev] Existing Cauldron VM users willing to test gnome-boxes? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="011287.html">[Mageia-dev] Re : Re : Re : E17 packaging +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#11337">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#11337">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#11337">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#11337">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |