Re: X11 lockup Win7Pro and KVM
Re: X11 lockup Win7Pro and KVM
After working on this for several days, I have come to the
conclusion that the problem is on the virt-manager console and
X11 side. Whether it's an OS X XQuartz issue or something with
the virt-manager console remains to be seen.
In order to eliminate XQuartz from the problem, I ran a
connection from a CentOS 5.8 VM running in VMware Fusion. The
results were inconclusive at the virt-manager console window
tended to be to high to get to the Windows task/menu bar at the
bottom of the window reliably.
What has worked well is using the open source 'rdesktop' program
under XQuartz X11, both running 'rdesktop' compiled on a Linux
box via a ssh connection, and 'rdesktop' built on the OS X Lion
system after I figured out how to get the Xcode command tools
installed and working.
I have been very impressed with the performance of 'rdesktop'
via an OpenVPN tunnel to the remote machine. Our connection
here is a T1 with only 20 of the DS0s used for data so it's not
terribly fast by today's standards.
I also had to learn how to do remote connections from Win7 to the
one on the Linux/KVM system so I could tell the Windows software
people how to do their job. That was very simple as well.
Install the OpenVPN GUI client on Windows, open the connection,
then use the standard Remote Desktop Connection from the Start
menu and follow the bouncing ball.
In any case, it's been an interesting learning experience, and I
think I'm ready to tackle getting various VMs moved from our old
free VMware Server systems to KVM.
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012, Bill Campbell wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 27, 2012, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia wrote:
>> On 2012-08-27 18:06, Bill Campbell wrote:
>>
>>> I am new to KVM, having run VMware Server (free version) for
>>> several years.
>>>
>>> I have the current version of KVM running on CentOS 5.8 with all
>>> updates applied. This is running on a SuperMicro mini-tower with
>>> 8GB RAM. /proc/cpuinfo shows this as 'Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU
>>> X3430 @ 2.40GHz'. This is not running SeLinux.
>>>
>>> I have created a Win7 Pro VM with 2GB RAM, and 50GB disk image.
>>> The Win7 install is vanilla with all Microsoft updates installed.
>>>
>>> I am accessing this system remotely via an OpenVPN tunnel from a
>>> Macbook Pro running OS X 10.7.4 Lion and the latest version of
>>> XQuartz xterms. The mid-2009 Macbook Pro has 8GB RAM.
>>>
>>> That said, my problem is that running the console of virt-manager
>>> open to the Win7 VM with nothing but Internet Explorer on the
>>> Win7 system, something causes X11 on my machine here to lose all
>>> connection with the keyboard until I go to X11 in the top menu,
>>> hide the X11 Windows, then display them again. After doing that,
>>> I have keyboard again for the 22+ xterms I have open, but the
>>> virt-manager and its Virtual Machine window are blank and
>>> unresponsive to any input short of 'xkill'.
>>>
>>> I have restarted libvirtd manually, rebooted the system, and
>>> this still occurs.
>>>
>>> FWIW, The 'virt-who' service fails on startup with an entry in the
>>> /var/log/rhsm/rhsm.log file saying No option 'consumercertdir' in
>>> section: 'rhsm' in the /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf file.
>>>
>>> Any clues to what is going on here?
>>
>> The keyboard focus issue is something that some have occasionally
>> reported, but I haven't been able to isolate the cause. It seems to
>> happen extremely rarely, but if you have a case which is triggering it
>> more frequently, I'd be curious to know if you have exact reproducible
>> steps to get it into this case.
>
>In this case it has occurrs when I'm running IE in the Win7
>console. This morning I was able to enter a few characters of a
>URL when it locked.
>
>At that point, I can generally move the cursor out of the
>virt-manager console to other, unrelated, xterms, usually, but
>not always, being able to enter from the keyboard. Several times
>this morning while working in other xterms, the virt-manager
>console has grabbed focus from that window.
>
>> As for the hide/show causing the windows to no longer show contents, can
>> you tell me a bit more about these windows? How are they being
>> rendered? Are they using GLX or just normal X11 windows? If GLX, it
>> may be an issue with the context vanishing on hide.
>
>I *THINK* it's normal X11, but I don't know. Jeremy or somebody
>on the XQuartz group can better answer that question.
>
>Bill
>--
>INTERNET: email@hidden Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC
>URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way
>Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820
>Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792
>
>Rights is a fictional abstraction. No one has ``Rights'', neither
>machines nor flesh-and-blood. Persons... have opportunities, not rights,
>which they use or do not use.
> -- Lazarus Long
> _______________________________________________
>Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
>X11-users mailing list (email@hidden)
>
>This email sent to email@hidden
>
--
Bill
--
INTERNET: email@hidden Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC
URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way
Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820
Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792
Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is
try and manage somebody else's affairs.
Will Rogers
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
X11-users mailing list (email@hidden)
This email sent to email@hidden