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Hi,

 

I want to know how do I make the spice drivers available to Win7 guest on (RHEL 5.8+KVM) set-up.

 

I skimmed thru' the docs but did not see much on it. I did see docs on virtio drivers installation (n/w and block). I was able to mount the virtio-win.iso on the Win7 guest, but I did not see spice drivers in that ISO.

 

Following are the details on the set-up:

 

I am running RHEL 5.8 (x86-64) with KVM:

 

[root@rhel_58 Win7]# uname -a
Linux rhel_58 2.6.18-308.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jan 27 17:17:51 EST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

 

[root@rhel_58 Win7]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga)

 

I installed the spice bits on the server (see rpm output):

 

[root@rhel58_kvm Win7]# rpm -qa | grep -i spice
ngspice-21-3.cvs20100719.el5
qspice-0.3.0-54.el5_5.2
tclspice-21-3.cvs20100719.el5
spice-vdagent-0.8.1-3.el5
emacs-spice-mode-1.2.25-4.el5
spice-usb-share-4.9-10.el5
emacs-spice-mode-el-1.2.25-4.el5
qspice-libs-devel-0.3.0-54.el5_5.2
qspice-libs-0.3.0-54.el5_5.2
kmod-kspiceusb-rhel5u6-4.5-8.el5
 

The following directory has spice drivers for Win7 guest on my RHEL 5.8 KVM server:

 

/usr/share/virtio-win/drivers/amd64/Win7

 

[root@rhel58_kvm Win7]# ls -tlr
total 188
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  15944 Aug 10  2011 qxl.sys
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   2550 Aug 10  2011 qxl.inf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 121928 Aug 10  2011 qxldd.dll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   7963 Aug 10  2011 qxl.cat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  20552 Aug 10  2011 viostor.sys
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   2550 Aug 10  2011 viostor.inf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   7712 Aug 10  2011 viostor.cat

 

[root@rhel58_kvm Win7]# chkconfig --list | grep -i spice
spice-vdagentd     0:off    1:off    2:off    3:off    4:off    5:on    6:off
spiceusbsrvd       0:off    1:off    2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

 

I am running in run-level 5 for now.

1) So, how do I make these spice (drivers) make available for installation to Win7 guest  (since they do not appear to be in the virtio-win.iso) ?

 

2) Am I missing any bits on the RHEL 5.8 server w.r.t. SPICE ?

 

Will appreciate some pointers.

 

Thanks,

Dharmesh.

DK

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