[Mageia-dev] Existing Cauldron VM users willing to test gnome-boxes?

Fri Jan 13 10:47:39 CET 2012

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 06:14:46PM -0500, Scott Chevalley wrote:
+> I'm using KVM for a windows 7 vm and I just tried to use gnome-boxes to create,
+> I guess, a vm for a drbl live cd and it created it but when I launch it the app
+> just shows a black screen and doesn't do anything.
+
+Thanks for testing!
+
+I'm getting the same black screen. So it seems it doesn't work anyone :-(
+
+Did you launch it from the terminal? Any debug output?
+
+> There's not much documentation so I'm not sure exactly what's supposed to happen
+> versus what is happening.
+
+You should be seeing the VM. It uses something new called 'splice'. I
+think that is where the error lies. The Fedora version of qemu 0.15 had
+some patches which they dropped in qemu 1.0. I'm hoping qemu 1.0 solves
+the issues, but wasn't able to compile it yesterday.
+
+"Splice" is pretty nice as you can e.g. share your USB somehow between
+the host and the VM (gnome-boxes has a checkbox, but no clue about the
+technical details).
+
+> I'll be happy to do some more testing if you can give me some pointers as to
+> what I'm looking for.
+
+The debug output from the terminal would be nice, as well as
+$HOME/.libvirt/qemu/log/*.
+
+I really want to get this working before the next Mageia testversion is
+released..
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+