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

Fri Jan 13 14:09:21 CET 2012

On Friday, 13 January 2012 11:47:39 Olav Vitters wrote:
+> 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.
+
+Have you tried connecting with spicec ?
+
+> 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 think you mean 'spice', which is a remote desktop protocol, which covers 
+display, sound, device sharing, printing etc. (AFAIU).
+
+I am more interested in the spice support in the libvirt/virt-manager tools 
+... but I am not running cauldron.
+
+> > 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..
+
+I would like to see virt-manager with spice support, and support in the 
+distribution for spice when a VM under qemu with spice support (spice-vdagent 
+stuff).
+
+Regards,
+Buchan
+