Bug 701984

Summary:	RFE: Offer "spicevmc" character device in Add Hardware dialog
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	David Jaša <djasa>
Component:	virt-manager	Assignee:	Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2	CC:	bsarathy, dyuan, mzhan, rwu
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description David Jaša 2011-05-04 13:23:44 UTC

Description of problem:
Virt-manager's Add Hardware --> Serial dialog contains a "Device Type" selection that contains several kinds of serial devices but the one needed by spice guest agent is missing

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-manager-0.8.6-4.el6.noarch

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:
qemu CLI options for this device:
-device virtio-serial -chardev spicevmc,id=vdagent,debug=0,name=vdagent -device virtserialport,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.spice.0

Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2011-06-10 22:28:51 UTC

This is currently upstream.

Comment 3 Cole Robinson 2011-07-28 15:31:05 UTC

Fixed in virt-manager-0.9.0-2.el6

Comment 5 Min Zhan 2011-08-04 03:15:28 UTC

Verified PASS with below environment:
# uname -r
2.6.32-165.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.175.el6.x86_64
libvirt-0.9.4-0rc1.2.el6.x86_64
virt-manager-0.9.0-5.el6.x86_64

Steps:
1. For a spice guest, Divert to guest details page
2. Click Add hardware -> Channel -> Device type as "Spice agent(spicevmc)", Name as "com.redhat.spice.0", Click Finish
3. Start the guest from virt-manager successfully. 
# virsh dumpxml <guest>
...
    <channel type='spicevmc'>
      <target type='virtio' name='com.redhat.spice.0'/>
      <alias name='channel0'/>
      <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/>
    </channel>
...

# ps -ef |grep kvm
...
-chardev spicevmc,id=charchannel0,name=vdagent -device virtserialport,bus=virtio-serial0.0,nr=1,chardev=charchannel0,id=channel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0

Comment 9 Cole Robinson 2011-11-07 16:39:00 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
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Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 16:11:57 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1642.html