spice4xen

Quick-Start Guide

You can get the source from the or

1. Build and install

   set CONFIG_SPICE  ?= y
   $cd the root of spice4xen
   $make install-xen
   $make install-kernels
   $make install-tools

Please refer to the documents of Xen for details.

2. Create a configure file for xm

An example:

kernel = '/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader'
builder = 'hvm'
memory = '384'
device_model = '/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm'
# Disks
disk = [ 'file:path-to-diskimage/imagefile.img,ioemu:hda,w', 'file:path-to-cd/cd_imagefile.iso,ioemu:hdc:cdrom,r' ]
# Networking
vif = ['ip=192.168.1.112, type=ioemu, bridge=xenbr0, mac=00:21:97:CB:0E:7D']
#Behaviour
boot='cd'
vnc=1
serial = 'pty'
vcpus=1
# Hostname
name = 'UserVM'
usbdevice='tablet'
# Spice
spice=1
spicehost='192.168.1.187'
spiceport=6000
spicepasswd = 'password'
spice_disable_ticketing = 0 # 0|1
spiceic = 'auto_glz' # auto_glz|auto_lz|quic|glz|lz|off(default=on=auto_glz) # image compression
spicesv = 'on' # on|off|all|filter# streaming video detection and (lossy) compression, on is added as tag which is default.
spicejpeg_wan_compression = 'auto' # auto|never|always
spicezlib_glz_wan_compression = 'auto' # auto|never|always
#spiceplayback = 1 # 1-on|0-off # playback compression, should using CELT algorithm?
spiceagent_mouse = 1 # 1-on (default)| 0-off, # agent-mouse mode
#qxl=0
#qxlnum=1
#qxlram=64 # M

3. Create a HVM

$xm create path-to-configure-file/xm.cfg

4. Launch the spice client

According to the example configuration above:

• Use for unstable-xen or xen-4.1.0

• Get and install

• Get Anthony's tree for xen-upstream-qemu from git://xenbits.xen.org/people/aperard/qemu-dm.git

• Build and install the qemu with the following config options

 ./configure --target-list=i386-softmmu --enable-spice
   --enable-xen --extra-cflags=-I${path-to-xen}/dist/install/usr/include
   --extra-ldflags=-L${path-to-xen}/dist/install/usr/lib

• Set the VM configuration file.

Add spice fields in VM configuration file.

    #spice
    spice=1
    spiceport=6000
    spicehost='192.168.1.187'
    spicedisable_ticketing = 0 # default is 0
    spicepasswd = 'password'

    apic=0 # disable acpi, if you used the additional patch referred below, use acpi=0 instead

You may need to disable acpi(I'm not sure),

but if you want to try to disable acpi, you may need to set

apic = 0, (Yes, it is apic not acpi, pls don't ask me why, because I am also confused with it).

If you feel uncomfortable by set apic = 0, you can try ,

then you can use acpi=0 in vm cfg file instead of apic to give "no-acpi" argument to qemu.

• Use xl to create an hvm

• Because xen-upstream-qemu don't support graphic, pls try this in linux-hvm disabling graphic boot.