[Users] [oVirt 3.1] Spice USB support

[Itamar Heim]

On 10/10/2012 10:09 AM, Andres Gonzalez wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com
> <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>     On 10/09/2012 09:55 PM, Andres Gonzalez wrote:
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>         On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Michal Skrivanek
>         <michal.skrivanek at redhat.com
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>              On 9 Oct 2012, at 15:21, Andres Gonzalez wrote:
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>                  On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Itamar Heim
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>                      On 10/08/2012 04:34 PM, Andres Gonzalez wrote:
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>                          On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Itamar Heim
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>                              On 10/08/2012 03:29 PM, Andres Gonzalez wrote:
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>                                  On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Itamar Heim
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>                                       On 10/08/2012 04:29 AM, Andres
>             Gonzalez wrote:
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>                                           Hi !!
>
>                                           I have a Windows 7 VM with
>             spice protocol
>                          with usb
>                                  redirection
>                                           enabled
>                                           but I cannot access to e.g. to
>             a pendrive.
>                                           It's already supported this
>             feature ?
>
>
>                                       (adding spice-devel)
>                                       please note only the native spice
>             usb mode is
>                          supported
>                                  (legacy is not).
>                                       which client?
>                                       which guest?
>                                       which ovirt version?
>
>
>
>                                  The mode is set yo legacy, I tried to
>             switch to
>                          native but the VM
>                                  doesn't starts, and show the following
>             error: VM
>                          Win7 is down. Exit
>                                  message: internal error Process exited
>             while
>                          reading console log
>                                  output:
>                                  qemu-kvm: -device
>                          piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.______0,addr=0x1.0x2:
>
>
>                                  Duplicate ID 'usb' for device .
>
>
>                              legacy isn't relevant to ovirt (its legacy...).
>                              the native error was already fixed.
>                              which versions of ovirt engine are you using?
>
>
>                          - oVirt version: oVirt Engine
>             Version:3.1.0-3.19.el6
>
>
>
>                                  - client:
>                                  RHEV-Agent 3.0.10
>                                  RHEV-Block 3.0.8
>                                  RHEV-Network 3.0.6
>                                  RHEV-Serial 3.0.5
>                                  RHEV-Spice 3.0.5
>                                  RHEV-Spice-Agent 3.0.4
>                                  RHEV-Tools 3.0.37
>                                  RHEV-USB 3.0.8
>
>
>                              wait, these are rhev, not ovirt?
>                              (rhev does have legacy usb mode)
>
>
>                          I downloaded those package from the Internet,
>             what are the
>                          guest
>                          packages supposed to be installed ?
>
>
>                      1. not sure where you downloaded them from - they
>             are not
>                      re-distributable in their binary form afair.
>
>                      2. these are the guest tools, you would need the
>             client tools
>                      as well, which in legacy mode require some proprietary
>                      3rdparty software (hence it is legacy)
>
>                      3. i recommend trying the new native mode (i.e,
>             which spice
>                      client supports, open source based).
>
>
>                  3. to try the new native mode, I should upgrade oVirt
>             version ?
>
>              Those RHEV packages should be removed
>              The latest 3.1 should work.
>
>              Thanks,
>              michal
>
>
>         OK, is there any "similar" package from oVirt to windows guest ?
>
>
>     spice native usb doesn't need anything in the guest
>
>
> I switch to native and the same error doesn't allow to start the VM
> (qemu-kvm: -device piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2:
> Duplicate ID 'usb' for device).

this issue was discussed several time on the list. it is a bug which was 
fixed later on.
eli (cc-d) provided a workaround to it iirc.

> I'm using oVirt Engine 3.1.0-319 under CentOS 6.3
>
>
> --
> AGD