Re: [Qemu-devel] Spice vdagent on SLED 11

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Raj Rajasekaran" <address@hidden>
> To: "Andrew Cathrow" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 1:49:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Spice vdagent on SLED 11
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> SLED Version 11.

>From what I learned on #kvm you need a later version of SLED (or update the 
>kernel) to pickup virtio-console.
For sure it's in SP2 maybe in SP1 but you'd need to check with SUSE about that.

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> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Andrew Cathrow <
> address@hidden > wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Raj Rajasekaran" < address@hidden >
> > To: "Andrew Cathrow" < address@hidden >
> > Cc: address@hidden
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> > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 1:38:59 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Spice vdagent on SLED 11
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> > lspci listed 'Communication Controller Virtio console' as one of
> > the
> > devices exposed. But I did not see any /dev/vport*.
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> I wonder if virtio-console driver is in this version of SLED
> What version (& service pack) are you running?
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> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Andrew Cathrow <
> > address@hidden > wrote:
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Raj Rajasekaran" < address@hidden >
> > > To: "Andrew Cathrow" < address@hidden >
> > > Cc: address@hidden
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> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:09:32 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Spice vdagent on SLED 11
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> > > Here it is
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> > > qemu -vga qxl -device qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=33554432
> > > -device
> > > virtio-serial -chardev spicevmc,id=vdagent,debug=0,name=vdagent
> > > -device virtserialport,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.spice.0
> > > -spice port=$SPICE_PORT,image-compression=off,disable-ticketing
> > > -enable-kvm -m 1024 -net
> > > nic,model=e1000,vlan=0,macaddr=52:54:84:fe:00:02 -net
> > > user,vlan=1,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22 -net nic,model=e1000,vlan=1
> > > -monitor stdio
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> > So the right config is being passed to KVM.
> > You can run lspci in the virtual machine to make sure the right PCI
> > devices are being exposed.
> > Then presuming the guest as virtio-serial support (and I don't know
> > if SLED11 has that compiled in) then you'll see /dev/vport* (and
> > potentially symlinks in /dev/virtio-ports/ depending on how udev is
> > setup in SLED)
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> > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Andrew Cathrow <
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> > > do you have the configuration ? is there a libvirt xml, or a
> > > command
> > > line in a script?
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> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Raj Rajasekaran" < address@hidden >
> > > > To: "Andrew Cathrow" < address@hidden >
> > > > Cc: address@hidden
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> > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 11:59:07 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Spice vdagent on SLED 11
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> > > > Yes.
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> > > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Andrew Cathrow <
> > > > address@hidden > wrote:
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> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: "Raj Rajasekaran" < address@hidden >
> > > > 
> > > > > To: "Andrew Cathrow" < address@hidden >
> > > > > Cc: address@hidden
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 11:43:12 AM
> > > > > Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Spice vdagent on SLED 11
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> > > > > Where do I check whether VM is configured to expose this
> > > > > virtio
> > > > > serial device? If not how to configure it.
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> > > > Did you start/configure the VM?
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> > > > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Andrew Cathrow <
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> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > > From: "Raj Rajasekaran" < address@hidden >
> > > > > > To: address@hidden
> > > > > > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 11:35:56 AM
> > > > > > Subject: [Qemu-devel] Spice vdagent on SLED 11
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> > > > > > I am not able to get Spice vdagent running on SLED 11
> > > > > > virtual
> > > > > > machine. Log file has the error message 'Missing virtio
> > > > > > device
> > > > > > '/dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0'. I am using Qemu
> > > > > > v0.15.1
> > > > > > and
> > > > > > Spice v0.10.0.
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> > > > > > Has anyone got this work under SLED11?
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> > > > > Is your VM configured to expost a virtio-serial device named
> > > > > com.redhat.spice.0 ?
> > > > > 
> > > > > -chardev spicevmc,id=charchannel0,name=vdagent
> > > > > -device
> > > > > virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0
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> > > > > or
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> > > > > 
> > > > > <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'/>
> > > > > <channel type='spicevmc'>
> > > > > <target type='virtio' name='com.redhat.spice.0'/>
> > > > > <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0'
> > > > > port='1'/>
> > > > > </channel>
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> > > > > > -Raj
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