On 09/04/2013 12:53 PM, Fernando Lozano wrote:
Hi there,
Sorry for the cross-post, but I seeked help on this issue before on those lists, but nobody answered. :-(
I'm trying to use virsh and virt-viewer on Windows. I'm running the latest binaries from http://spice-space.org/download.html, that is, virt-viewer-x64-0.5.7.msi on a Windows 7 64-bits computer.
So far I got remote-viewer.exe to work, after some pain. But have no sucess using virt-viewer.exe and virsh.exe. Are they supposed to work, or am I loosing my time?
It will only work if someone interested enough submits patches.
Even then virsh can't connect:
virsh # connect qemu://kvmhost/system error: Failed to connect to the hypervisor error: Unable to set close-on-exec flag: Success
Here, I wonder if we can't improve the situation; src/util/virutil.c:virSetInherit() does nothing, and its wrapper virSetCloseExec() should therefore always return 0, which makes it very suspicious - the message in src/rpc/virnetsocket.c about close-on-exec not working should never be reached. What version of virsh is included in that msi? Maybe it's just a case of a stale build, for something that has been fixed upstream? But I personally have not tried to build or debug on mingw, to know if this is the only issue, or if you are staring at a number of other portability issues to resolve first. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org