I'm having an odd issue that i find hard to believe could be a bug, and
not some kind of user error, but im at a loss for where else to look.
when booting a linux ISO with QXL SPICE graphics, the boot hangs as soon
as kernel modesetting kicks in. Tried with latest debian, fedora, and
centos. Sometimes it randomly works, but most often it does not. QXL /
VGA VNC work fine. However if i wait a few minutes after starting the VM
for the graphics to start, then there are no issues and i can install as
usual.
So after install, i reboot, hangs on reboot right after graphics switch
back to text mode with QXL SPICE, not with VNC. So i force power off,
reboot, and wait a while for it to boot. If i did text only install,
when i open a spice console it will hang after typing a few characters.
If i did a graphical install then as long as i waited long enough for X
to start, then it works perfectly fine.
I tried to capture some logs, but since the whole guest OS hangs it's
rather hard to pull off. I did see an occasional error about the mouse
driver, so that's really all i have to go on.
As for the spice client, im using virt-viewer on windows 10 x64, tried
various versions of virt-viewer just to be sure, no change. I also have
a large amount on windows guests with QXL SPICE. These all work with no
issue. Having guest agent installed in the linux guest seems to make no
difference.
There are no out of the ordinary logs on the VDSM hosts, but i can
provide anything you may need. It's not specific to any one host, i have
10 VM hosts in the cluster, they all do. They are westmere boxes if that
makes a difference.
Any ideas on how i should approach this? VNC works well enough for text
only linux guest, but not being able to reboot my GUI linux guests
without also closing my spice connection is a small pain.
as far as ovirt versions im on the latest, this is a rather fresh
install. just set it up a few days ago, but i've been a long time ovirt
user. I am using a squid spice proxy if that makes a difference.
