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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.

Patch changeset-23104 from xen-4.1-testing.hg (changeset 23104:1976adbf2b80) has been applied to fix build "hvmloader" by GCC 4.6. Packages ready to go uploaded to PPA Xen 4.1.1 on Ubuntu 11.10. Workaround connected with ERROR: Domain not found: xenUnifiedDomainLookupByName when attempt to set up HVM DomU via virt-manager is also described in details.

Following bellow is the first attempt to create PV domain at stock Xen 4.1 Dom0 on top Ubuntu Oneiric (alpha2 +) running kernel 3.0.0-5-generic. One bug in system configuration was fixed after initial install. I added to /etc/modules: xen-gntdev xen-blkback xen-netback

All packages required are already in PPA "Spice-Gtk-0.6 on Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10".Spice-gtk-0.6 has been done for Oneiric as two builds. First one with python and gobject-introspection enabled (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. Patched virt-manager and virtinst also support spicevmc channel.View :

Spice-Gtk-0.6 on Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10 The only one qemu-kvm package should be rebuilt (spice enabled) as soon as stable qemu-kvm 0.15 git tree will be branched.

Package spice-gtk-0.6 has been rebuilt on Natty to support gobject-introspection.Notice, that it was GTK2 build. Only GTK2 build creates SpiceClientGtk.so,which allows you to open Spice Console via virt-manager. Fedora 16 (rawhide) does two parallel builds GTK2 and GTK3

Procedure following bellow set up spicevmc channel support on KVM Server Ubuntu Natty. It also instructs how to setup spice-vdagent on Natty installed as KVM guest at any KVM Server Ubuntu 11.04 or F15. In other words it contains build debian package spice-vdagent via source for Ubuntu 11.04 ( Natty).

Packages from PPA Spice-Gtk-0.6 on Ubuntu 11.04 have been rebuilt and installed on Ubuntu Oneiric Alpha 1 + (apt-get update; apt-get upgrade) as of 06/10/2011.

I presume that standard KVM Server has been already setup on Ubuntu 11.04. The intend is to push "spice" as far as possible on the system, including option of running spice session via virt-manager for domains install and runtime as well. Add to system PPA "Building qemu-kvm & spice based on current /virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git for Ubuntu 11.04"