[libvirt-users] Windows guest and virtio serial port

Tadas tadas at ring.lt
Fri Jul 1 09:13:05 UTC 2016


Okay, 
it seems that \\.\\Global\  named pipes are not liested via pipelis.exe
nor via powershell.
Named pipes are created though.
On Fri, 2016-07-01 at 09:09 +0300, Tadas wrote:
> Okay, I've updated virtio serial drivers to latest ones. This did not
> help. Afterwards I've enabled "Show hidden devices" in Device manager
> of a guest os.In the "Other devices" section I can see two virtio
> serial ports with
> question marks (i did configure guest with 2 virtio channels).
> Is this a normal behaviour?
> Screenshot:
> https://cloud.ring.lt/index.php/s/YCgnuc8ncPo18dP
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated. Thank you.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2016-06-30 at 11:39 +0300, Tadas wrote:
> > I'm not sure, if it's correct mailing list to post this problem to.
> > 
> > I'm having problems with Windows guest and virtio serial port.
> > According to this manual:
> > http://www.spice-space.org/page/Whiteboard/AgentProtocol
> > I should get a named pipe on my guest VM after I create VirtIO
> > sedial
> > device and spicevmc channel.
> > This works without any problems on Linux guest:
> > 
> > ls /dev/virtio-ports/
> > com.redhat.spice.0
> > 
> > But on Windows guest I can see no such pipe:
> > 
> > PipeList v1.01
> > by Mark Russinovich
> > http://www.sysinternals.com
> > 
> > Pipe Name                                    Instances       Max
> > Instances
> > ---------                                    ---------       ----
> > ----
> > -----
> > InitShutdown                                      3               -
> > 1
> > lsass                                             4               -
> > 1
> > ntsvcs                                            3               -
> > 1
> > scerpc                                            3               -
> > 1
> > Winsock2\CatalogChangeListener-2b8-
> > 0              1                1
> > epmapper                                          3               -
> > 1
> > Winsock2\CatalogChangeListener-1ac-
> > 0              1                1
> > LSM_API_service                                   3               -
> > 1
> > TermSrv_API_service                               3               -
> > 1
> > Ctx_WinStation_API_service                        3               -
> > 1
> > eventlog                                          3               -
> > 1
> > Winsock2\CatalogChangeListener-174-
> > 0              1                1
> > atsvc                                             3               -
> > 1
> > wkssvc                                            6               -
> > 1
> > Winsock2\CatalogChangeListener-16c-
> > 0              1                1
> > SessEnvPublicRpc                                  3               -
> > 1
> > spoolss                                           3               -
> > 1
> > Winsock2\CatalogChangeListener-550-
> > 0              1                1
> > trkwks                                            3               -
> > 1
> > NlaSvcTask                                        1               -
> > 1
> > srvsvc                                            5               -
> > 1
> > browser                                           3               -
> > 1
> > Winsock2\CatalogChangeListener-710-
> > 0              1                1
> > Winsock2\CatalogChangeListener-228-
> > 0              1                1
> > Winsock2\CatalogChangeListener-230-
> > 0              1                1
> > HPUPDMon                                          1                
> > 1
> > MsFteWds                                          2               -
> > 1
> > PIPE_EVENTROOT\CIMV2SCM EVENT PROVIDER            1               -
> > 1
> > TDLN-3772-
> > 41                                      1                2
> > TDLN-3216-
> > 41                                      1                2
> > 
> > 
> > virtio serial drivers are installed on Windows guest VM.
> > What I am missing here?
> > Thank you.
> > 
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