[fedora-virt] trying to test qemu-spice on F12

Gianluca Cecchi gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com
Wed Dec 23 10:19:50 UTC 2009


hello,
I'm testing qemu-spice for some windows guests..
I installed repo files and sw components as I read on
www.linux-kvm.com web site
Now I would like to try this on my host that is a F12 x86_64 where I
already have virt-manager / livirtd set up for other pre-existing vm.

So some sort of questions arise:
1) Can I manually start a VM from command line taking advantage of
libvirtd setup already in place?
For example I have virbr0 as default enabled and I tried something like:
/usr/libexec/qemu-spice -hda disc0.img -m 512 -localtime  -qxl 1
-spice port=5930,disable-ticketing -cdrom spice-windows.iso -net nic
-net user,net=192.168.122.0/24,host=192.168.122.1

but it seems the guest takes the default 10.0.2.15 ip and it is not
able to exit to the internet as I would like to see and verify
graphical improvements in my guest....
what would be the manual command to attach to virbr0?
I also tried to mimic start line of a vm started from virt-manager using
"-net nic,vlan=0,name=nic.0 -net tap,fd=24,vlan=0,name=tap.0"
but then I'm not able to connect via spice to the guest....

2) doing some tests with the client, run with the command:
/usr/bin/spicec -h localhost -p 5930
I saw previous posts telling to hit Ctrl+F12 to exit its window, but
it seems it is not working for me.
tried severale key combinations but the only chance to come back with
the pointer to the host is to shutdown the VM....
any hint on this?

Thanks,
Gianluca




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