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Following bellow is attempt to reproduce Hans de Goede blog entry at http://planet.spice-space.org/ ([1]) on Ubuntu 11.10 just to fix bug with Windows 7 KVM after set up Spice&KVM Server via PPA “Qemu-kvm-0.15.0+noroms(spice enabled), Spice Server&Client 0.9.1, Spice-Gtk-0.7-2(via Debian)” ([2]).

Following bellow seems to be the best way to implement Qemu-kvm 0.15.0 spice enabled, Spice Server 0.8.2 and Spice-Gtk-0.7 with GObject-introspection enabled on Ubuntu 11.10 in meantime close to Beta 1.

Version of Spice-Gtk-0.7 coming from Debian Unstable doesn’t support Gobject-introspection. Original version is not ready to install files like *.gir and *.typelib. It also requires fix for debian/control and debian/rules. Rebuild to enable gobject-introspection has been done in PPA “Building Spice-Gtk-0.7 via Debian Unstable with gobject-introspection enabled” for Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)

All packages required are already in PPA “Spice-Gtk-0.7 on Ubuntu 11.10?. Spice-gtk-0.7 has been done for Oneiric as two builds. First one with python, gobject-introspection enabled and --with-gtk=”2.0?(GTK2). Second one --with-introspection and --with-gtk=”3.0? (GTK3).This builds actually are the core builds in PPA, which bring RH’s technologies to Ubuntu 11.10. Notice, that option --with-audio=”pulse” is also used by both builds and appears to be working fine.Patched virt-manager and virtinst also support spicevmc channel. Following bellow is brief description of PPA "Spice-Gtk-0.7 on Ubuntu 11.10"

Procedure to keep in sync Xen 4.1.2-r(X) on Ubuntu Oneiric ( development branch) with tip of Xensource's xen-4.1-testing.hg stable mercurial tree follows bellow, which provides a flexible way to apply the most recent changesets instead of back porting them to Xen 4.1.1 having permanent concern regarding consistency of selected set of CSs.

Patch changeset-23104 from xen-4.1-testing.hg (changeset 23104:1976adbf2b80) has been applied to fix build "hvmloader" by GCC 4.6. Packages ready to go uploaded to PPA Xen 4.1.1 on Ubuntu 11.10. Workaround connected with ERROR: Domain not found: xenUnifiedDomainLookupByName when attempt to set up HVM DomU via virt-manager is also described in details.

Following bellow is the first attempt to create PV domain at stock Xen 4.1 Dom0 on top Ubuntu Oneiric (alpha2 +) running kernel 3.0.0-5-generic. One bug in system configuration was fixed after initial install. I added to /etc/modules: xen-gntdev xen-blkback xen-netback

All packages required are already in PPA "Spice-Gtk-0.6 on Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10".Spice-gtk-0.6 has been done for Oneiric as two builds. First one with python and gobject-introspection enabled (GTK2). Second one --with-introspection and --with-gtk="3.0" (GTK3).This builds actually are the core builds in PPA, which bring RH's technologies to Ubuntu 11.10. Patched virt-manager and virtinst also support spicevmc channel.View :

Spice-Gtk-0.6 on Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10 The only one qemu-kvm package should be rebuilt (spice enabled) as soon as stable qemu-kvm 0.15 git tree will be branched.

Package spice-gtk-0.6 has been rebuilt on Natty to support gobject-introspection.Notice, that it was GTK2 build. Only GTK2 build creates SpiceClientGtk.so,which allows you to open Spice Console via virt-manager. Fedora 16 (rawhide) does two parallel builds GTK2 and GTK3

Procedure following bellow set up spicevmc channel support on KVM Server Ubuntu Natty. It also instructs how to setup spice-vdagent on Natty installed as KVM guest at any KVM Server Ubuntu 11.04 or F15. In other words it contains build debian package spice-vdagent via source for Ubuntu 11.04 ( Natty).

Packages from PPA Spice-Gtk-0.6 on Ubuntu 11.04 have been rebuilt and installed on Ubuntu Oneiric Alpha 1 + (apt-get update; apt-get upgrade) as of 06/10/2011.

I presume that standard KVM Server has been already setup on Ubuntu 11.04. The intend is to push "spice" as far as possible on the system, including option of running spice session via virt-manager for domains install and runtime as well. Add to system PPA "Building qemu-kvm & spice based on current /virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git for Ubuntu 11.04"

Rebuild procedure of regular qemu-kvm package to support spice on Natty Narwhal follows bellow. It depends on all packages from ppa:serge-hallyn/spice2 except qemu-kvm-spice. New packages install spice enabled /usr/bin/qemu* binaries and graphical spice client. I just disabled libvirtd's AppArmor profile to be able manage domains via virt-manager. Spice install may be performed via virt-install. It would understand options "--graphics spice", "--video qxl". All required packages have been uploaded and built in PPA Spice on Ubuntu 11.04

Packages installed via ppa:serge-hallyn/spice2 have been tested for F14, W7 KVMs installs and runtime. qemu-kvm-spice (0.14.0+noroms-0ubuntu4qxl2) package is based on the most recent RH’s QXL patches sets for qemu-kvm-0.14.tar.gz. Add new repository to system . . .

Primary target is to get virt-install supporting options “--graphics spice”,”--video qxl”,”--channel spicevmc”. One drawback has been noticed. Virt-manager requires “Add hardware”->”Graphics”->”VNS Server” before you can proceed with normal VNC installation. Obvious workaround via option “Customize configuration before install”.

Following bellow is brief exercise managing Gnome 3 Desktop to create Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat KVM and run it in spice session.First of all after “yum update” i verified current “qemu” and “libvirt” status on Fedora 15. Virtualization Group has been selected during initial install.Then added Virt-Manager to favourites to avoid several mouse clicks at every start up.

The most recent patches to Fedoras Qemu 0.14 came into qemu-0.14.0-4.fc14.src.rpm on 03/18/2011. Following bellow is brief description of F14 KVM and Spice Server set up via “Libvirt Preview”. Configured KVM Server allows to create Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop KVM (alpha 3), which may run in spice session after QXL driver install.

Following bellow is attempt to test mentioned patch to resolve problem with loading KVM with “-vga qxl” by /usr/bin/qemu-kvm (v. 0.14) on Fedora 14 ( Libvirt Preview Environment ) . View : http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/84704/. Test was successful for SL6,F14,W2K3,W7 KVMs (without QXL driver installed) and failed on Ubuntu 10.10 KVM no matter of presence or absence of QXL driver.

Fedora 14 has version of Libvirt 0.8.7 and qemu-0.13.0-1 installed via Rawhide Preview Repo. However, straightforward attempt to virt-install Windows 7 on virtio boot device fails to detect device after viostor.sys gets preloaded. It’s a known bug [1]. Actually, thread at Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 656353 contains required patch , but doesn’t contain any explanation how to rebuild and reinstall required package python-virtinst-0.500.4-1.fc14.noarch.rpm.Detailed workaround for this issue follows bellow.

First of all setup DNJL PPA to upgrade KVM/QEMU up to Qemu 0.12.5 & Libvirt 0.8.3 on Ubuntu Lucid Server and download the most recent Fedora virtio-win drivers from http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/image... as floppy and ISO image. Notice , that same virt-install will run fine on KVM Server Ubuntu 10.10 due to required versions of Libvirt & Qemu appear to be installed by default.