Use of SPICE with KVM Windows VM

[rembout]

Hello,

I run TrueNAS SCALE on an HP DL380 G9 32GB RAM 2*E5-2630L v3 and 4*4To RAIDZ and 1*1To stripe pool for VM and containers.

I've installed Windows 10 in a VM with gui, but the default video driver can't be choosen.

I've tried to use virsh to see the vm config but it can't find /var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock (which in fact is at /run/truenas-libvirt/libvirt-sock)
After creating a symlink between these two places, I can use virsh and edit my vm config.

I've tried to change the video driver by a SPICE one

Code:

<graphics type='spice' port='3001' autoport='no'>
    <listen type='address'/>
</graphics>
<video>
    <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='16384' heads='1'/>
    <alias name='video0'/>
    <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
</video>

In place of cirrus default video.

Code:

<graphics type='vnc' port='5900' autoport='no' listen='0.0.0.0'>
      <listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0'/>
    </graphics>
    <video>
      <model type='cirrus' vram='16384' heads='1' primary='yes'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
    </video>

But when I start the VM, my mod is overriden and the VM boot with cirrus and vnc instead of SPICE.


Do you have any clue of how i could define the video mode of my VM ?

Tell me if anything is unclear

Thanks for your help

Rem

 

[jrp]

Replacing novnc by Spice has been a disaster and I've seen no recognition of this by the development team.

 

[Trevor68]

have to agree, Spice is just terrible.

 

[jrp]

I have NO idea why the developers are not addressing the concerns of the users