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Build requires spice & spice-protocol 0.10.1 and the most recent usbredir 0.4.3 as of 04/02/2010. View also recent commit at [url=http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk]http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk[/url][/url] converted to 0001-usbredir-Check-for-existing-usb-channels-after-libus.patch for spice-gtk-0.11

New upstream release. Add USB redirection support, see Hans comments in the log and that post for details: http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/11084.html ; introduce SpiceGtkSession to deal with session-wide Gtk events, such as clipboard, instead of doing it per display ; many cursor and keyboard handling improvements ; handle the new “semi-seamless” migration ; support new Spice mini-headers ; better coroutines: fibers on windows and jmp on linux ; add Vala vapi bindings generation ; Add command line options for setting the cache size and the glz window size ; Add a USB device selection widget to libspice-client-gtk ; many bug fixes and code improvements ;

In other words posting may be named “Set up Spice-Gtk 0.8 on Ubuntu Precise”. Short list of the changes per [1] :- add USB redirection support, see Hans comments in the log and that post for details: http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/11084.html

Two options of building patched QEMU-KVM 1.0 are considered bellow. First one : Qemu-kvm 1.0 has been built based on branch qemu-kvm-1.0-usbredir as of 12/29/2011. It contains all required usb redirection patches on top of QEMU-KVM 1.0 release. Second one : Patching QEMU-KVM 1.0 (core git tree) via extracted patches set to support USB redirection on Ubuntu Precise. Generating patches set via commands . . .

Procedure following bellow set up Qemu-kvm 1.0 & Spice 0.10 & Spice-Gtk 0.7.159 & Libusb 1.0.9-rc3 (official) on daily build of Ubuntu Precise (kernel 3.2.0-6).There is only one change to official libusb 1.0.9~rc3

Following bellow is an attempt to reproduce Hans de Goede blog entry at http://planet.spice-space.org/ on Ubuntu 12.04 and 11.10 with intend to build Qemu-kvm 1.0 with usb redirection network support per http://planet.spice-space.org/. Current build qemu-kvm for Ubuntu Precise is based on branch http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~jwrdegoede/qemu/. View similar PPA for Ubuntu Oneiric Qemu-kvm 1.0 & Spice 0.10.0 & Spice-Gtk-0.7.81 USB redirection and Libvirt 0.9.7-2 for Ubuntu Oneiric(v.6)

RH’s opensource distros ISO images (Fedora,CentOS) have a nice feature,been loop mounted on apache folder /var/www/domain, they allow to create local mirror to virt-install corresponding paravirtual guest. Not customized Ubuntu ISOs don’t have this feature, however virt-install still works for Oneiric, Natty, Lucid utilizing remote system HTTP source.

Spice Server and client upgraded up to 0.10.0. Libvirt upgraded up to 0.9.7-2 via Debian Unstable Per Daniel Berrange: In the same way that SSH allows you to setup hostname aliases in $HOME/.ssh/config, libvirt will now allow you to setup URI aliases in $HOME/.libvirt/libvirt.conf (if you are running unprivileged) or /etc/libvirt/libvirt.conf (if you are running as root).

Stock kernel for Oneiric (3.0.X.Y) has the same Xen configuration as 3.1. In meantime I had to pass through procedure bellow with intend to benefit from PV-on-HVM feature providing by Xen 4.1.X Hypervisor and properly built 3.0 or 3.1 linux kernel. I follow [1] step by step updating config.flavour.pvhvm as required to perform kernel rebuild.

This post is sample of utilizing optimized paravirtualized PVHVM drivers (also called PV-on-HVM drivers) with Xen fully virtualized HVM guests running Ubuntu 3.1 kernels at Xen 4.1.2 Dom0. Xen PVHVM drivers completely bypass the Qemu emulation and provide much faster disk- and network IO performance. First thing I had to do it was rebuild the recent Ubuntu kernel for precise - Ubuntu-3.1.0-3

Procedure is standard Debian’s network PV install. Download configuration file from following location. Debian and consequently Ubuntu still consider Libvirt and virtinst tools like virt-manager and command line utility virt-install as way to manage RH’s Xen domains like F15,F16,CentOS 6 either to be utilized with Qemu-kvm Hypervisor.

Install Xen Hypervisor via PPA Xen 4.1.2 with pygrub gpt support for Ubuntu Oneiric not regular one.

I’ve just built locally and uploaded to Launchpad Libvirt 0.9.6 via Debian Unstable, applying standard set of Ubuntu’s patches updated for 0.9.6. It allows follow http://planet.spice-space.org/ update VM’s XML profile under /etc/libvirt/qemu/ as suggested in second blog entry of Hans de Goede manage VMs via virsh or VirtManager having USB redirection support active in Spicy’s sessions. View for further details my previous posting to LXer

Following bellow is attempt to reproduce Hans de Goede blog entry at http://planet.spice-space.org/ on Ubuntu 11.10 with intent to build Qemu-kvm 0.15.0 with usb redirection network support per http://planet.spice-space.org/ via git repository git://people.freedesktop.org/~jwrdegoede/qemu. Spice-Gtk-0.7.4X has been built up on current snapshot of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk to obtain Spice-Gtk with usb redirection support, working stable with Spice 0.9.1. Build done on Ubuntu Oneiric

Packaged version version of Spice-Gtk-0.7.4X is built up on current snapshot of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk with GTK2.Libusb-1.0-2:1.0.9-3ubuntu9 is built up on git://people.freedesktop.org/~jwrdegoede/libusb (pre 1.0.9). Usbredir-0.3.1-1ubuntu5 is built up on official release usbredir-0.3.1.tar.gz.

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.