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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: 1. 2. 3. 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
This is currently upstream.
Fixed in virt-manager-0.9.0-2.el6
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
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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