[OpenIndiana-discuss] /hipster: kvm questions

[Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst]

On 09/28/18 10:11, Predrag Zečević - Technical Support Analyst wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> due to lack of VirtualBox support after July illumos changes, I moved 
> Windows VM (used for skype mainly) to kvm...
> 
> KVM guests start fine, but:
> * I am unable to use shared folders (not terribly important, but nice to 
> have)
> * clipboards sharing between host/guest does not work. I spent some time 
> looking around for solution, and almost every document mentions "spice" 
> tools, but our qemu-kvm is not compiled to support it. tigervnc (if I 
> start guest with vnc) also does not work (although clipboards sharing is 
> enabled)
> * I cannot get better resolution than 1024*768 - whatever I do it is not 
> possible to use 1280x720x32 or 1366x768x32
> 
> Does anyone uses kvm and knows solution for (best would be, if possible) 
> for all 3 problems I have faced with?
> 
> Regards.

To replay to myself:

$ qemu-kvm -h | grep spice
-spice <args>   enable spice

$ qemu-kvm -spice help
qemu-kvm: -spice help: there is no option group "spice"
spice is not supported by this qemu build.

Command to start guest:
$ qemu-kvm -m 1536M -cpu host -drive 
file=/dev/zvol/rdsk/pz512/VBoxGuests/Win10_64-HD1 -netdev user,id=vlan0 
-net nic,model=e1000,netdev=vlan0 -k de -smp 1 -localtime  -soundhw all 
-no-hpet -bios /usr/share/qemu/bios.bin -usbdevice tablet -monitor 
tcp:0:55010,server,nowait -daemonize

Regards.
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Predrag Zečević
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