Bug 1855176 - Spice-agent can't start in win2008 guest sometimes
Summary: Spice-agent can't start in win2008 guest sometimes
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
Classification: Red Hat
Component: rhv-guest-tools-iso
Version: 4.3.10
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Arik
QA Contact: Beni Pelled
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-07-09 07:19 UTC by mxie@redhat.com
Modified: 2022-04-17 08:12 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2020-07-10 04:51:51 UTC
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win2008-x86-spice-agent-start-error.png (86.84 KB, image/png)
2020-07-09 07:19 UTC, mxie@redhat.com
no flags Details
win2008-x86-virtio-error.png (72.82 KB, image/png)
2020-07-09 07:21 UTC, mxie@redhat.com
no flags Details


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Red Hat Issue Tracker RHV-45781 0 None None None 2022-04-17 08:12:14 UTC

Description mxie@redhat.com 2020-07-09 07:19:56 UTC
Created attachment 1700403 [details]
win2008-x86-spice-agent-start-error.png

Description of problem:
Spice-agent can't start in win2008 guest sometimes

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhv-guest-tools-iso-4.3-13.el7ev
virt-v2v-1.40.2-10.el7.x86_64
virtio-win-1.9.6-1.el7.noarch
rhv:4.3.10-0.2.el7

How reproducible:
50%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Log into engine server to upload rhv-guest-tools-iso to ISO Storage Domain
1.1 # http://download.eng.bos.redhat.com/brewroot/packages/rhv-guest-tools-iso/4.3/13/noarch/rhv-guest-tools-iso-4.3-13.el7ev.noarch.rpm -y

1.2 # engine-iso-uploader --iso-domain=iscsi_iso upload /usr/share/rhv-guest-tools-iso/RHV-toolsSetup_4.3_13.iso
Please provide the REST API password for the admin@internal oVirt Engine user (CTRL+D to abort): 
Uploading, please wait...
INFO: Start uploading /usr/share/rhv-guest-tools-iso/RHV-toolsSetup_4.3_13.iso 
Uploading: [########################################] 100%
INFO: /usr/share/rhv-guest-tools-iso/RHV-toolsSetup_4.3_13.iso uploaded successfully

2.Convert a win2008 guests from VMware to rhv4.3 by virt-v2v
#  virt-v2v -ic vpx://root.73.141/data/10.73.196.89/?no_verify=1 -it vddk -io vddk-libdir=/home/vmware-vix-disklib-distrib/ -io vddk-thumbprint=1F:97:34:5F:B6:C2:BA:66:46:CB:1A:71:76:7D:6B:50:1E:03:00:EA  -ip /home/passwd  -o rhv-upload -oo rhv-direct -oc https://hp-dl360eg8-03.lab.eng.pek2.redhat.com/ovirt-engine/api -op /home/rhvpasswd -oo rhv-verifypeer=true -of raw -oo rhv-cluster=ISCSI  -os iscsi_data -b ovirtmgmt -oo rhv-cafile=/home/ca.pem -oa preallocated esx6.5-win2008-i386


3.Power on guest after v2v conversion, check if guest agents can be installed from RHV-toolsSetup_4.3_13.iso automatically, found spice agent can't start normally, pls refer to screenshot"win2008-x86-spice-agent-start-error.png"


Actual results:
As above description

Expected results:
Spice-agent can start normally in win2008 guests

Additional info:

Comment 1 mxie@redhat.com 2020-07-09 07:21:01 UTC
Created attachment 1700404 [details]
win2008-x86-virtio-error.png

Comment 2 Arik 2020-07-09 12:50:39 UTC
Tomas, this seems like the problem you've mentioned about the virtio-drivers iso on win2008, right?

Comment 3 Tomáš Golembiovský 2020-07-09 14:41:51 UTC
Yes, this is the bug we talked about.

Comment 4 Gal Zaidman 2020-07-09 14:48:14 UTC
Hi win2008 is not supported by spice at all, just win10.
On the old tools we installed it because it can work. On the new virtio-win tools installer we dont install it.
I suggest to close it as not a bug

Comment 5 Tomáš Golembiovský 2020-07-09 15:11:32 UTC
The reason that spice agent is not starting is probably because the virtio serial device is not properly set up. So rather than whether to spice or not to spice we should care why are the drivers considered corrupted.

Comment 6 mxie@redhat.com 2020-07-10 02:18:13 UTC
(In reply to Gal Zaidman from comment #4)
> Hi win2008 is not supported by spice at all, just win10.
> On the old tools we installed it because it can work. On the new virtio-win
> tools installer we dont install it.
> I suggest to close it as not a bug


Win2008 is trying to install spice agent from rhv-guest-tools-iso-4.3-13.el7 rather than virtio-win in this bug, besides, Win2008 guest is still supported on rhel7 v2v[1] and rhv4.3, I suggest close the bug as WONTFIX if the bug isn't worth fixing, thanks

[1]v2v supported guest: https://access.redhat.com/articles/1351473

Comment 7 Michal Skrivanek 2020-07-10 04:51:51 UTC
Win2008 is no longer supported in 4.4 (see https://access.redhat.com/articles/973163) because of RHEL 8 transition. closing then


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