unknown video model 'qxl'

[Dave Gilbert]

Binary package hint: virt-manager

the virt manager gui lets you select 'qxl' as the vga adapter type, however it then says 'Error changing VM configuration: internal error unknwon video model 'qxl'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/details.py", line 1838, in _change_config_helper
    self.vm.redefine_cached()
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 258, in redefine_cached
    self._redefine_xml(xml)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/libvirtobject.py", line 152, in _redefine_xml
    return self._redefine_helper(origxml, newxml)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/libvirtobject.py", line 142, in _redefine_helper
    self._define(newxml)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 957, in _define
    self.get_connection().define_domain(newxml)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 777, in define_domain
    self.vmm.defineXML(xml)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 1344, in defineXML
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainDefineXML() failed', conn=self)
libvirtError: internal error unknown video model 'qxl'

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: virt-manager 0.8.6-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-3.30-generic 2.6.38-rc4
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-3-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: f2d10bd9f943a85b486a282e7840a570
CheckboxSystem: 0531969bcfd4f03af7405c98dc94a948
Date: Sun Feb 13 01:16:00 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: virt-manager

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

The current qemu-kvm in Natty (0.13) does not yet support qxl. However, next week, we will be merging qemu-kvm 0.14, which does have qxl support. Please retest after that.

Thanks!
Dustin

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

I'm going to mark incomplete for now; please retest with qemu-kvm 0.14 as soon as it's in the archive.

Thanks.
Dustin

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

Hi Dustin,
With:
ii qemu-kvm 0.14.0~rc1+noroms-0ubuntu3 Full virtualization on i386 and amd64 hardware

I still get the following error; my gut feeling is it's not getting as far as qemu ; this is triggering when I hit 'apply' on the 'video' pane of the VM settings after changing the drop down to qxl.

  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/details.py", line 1838, in _change_config_helper
    self.vm.redefine_cached()
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 258, in redefine_cached
    self._redefine_xml(xml)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/libvirtobject.py", line 152, in _redefine_xml
    return self._redefine_helper(origxml, newxml)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/libvirtobject.py", line 142, in _redefine_helper
    self._define(newxml)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 957, in _define
    self.get_connection().define_domain(newxml)
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 777, in define_domain
    self.vmm.defineXML(xml)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 1344, in defineXML
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virDomainDefineXML() failed', conn=self)
libvirtError: internal error unknown video model 'qxl'

[Ahmed Kamal (kim0)]

Hi,

I can confirm it, with 0.14.0~rc1+noroms-0ubuntu3

virsh dumpxml win7 > win7.xml
vim win7.xml #change video to qxl
virsh define win7.xml
error: Failed to define domain from win7.xml
error: internal error unknown video model 'qxl'

[Ahmed Kamal (kim0)]

Trying to run kvm binary directly, passing the following parameters " -vga qxl -spice port=5930,disable-ticketing" results in

kvm: -spice port=5930,disable-ticketing: there is no option group "spice"
spice is not supported by this qemu build

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

@Ahmed,

could you please open a bug against qemu-kvm to add -enable-spice to the configure args?

[Ahmed Kamal (kim0)]

@Serge open as #723796

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

virt-manager should now accept 'qxl' with libvirt 0.8.8 that is now in natty.

Of course, we don't actually have qxl support in kvm because of bug #723796, but this issue can be closed for virt-manager.

If you can still reproduce this with an up-to-date natty, please feel free to reopen it.