1 spice-vdagent and RHEL-5 README
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4 spice-vdagent can also be used inside RHEL-5 guests, if, and only if, they
5 are hosted on a host which uses virtio-serial as the agent channel. Note
6 that older hosts, such as qemu shipped with RHEL-5 for example, use
7 a custom pci device (the spicevmc device) for the agent channel and
8 there is no Linux support for this device so spice-vdagent does not work
9 inside guests hosted on such hosts! Hosts based on RHEL-6 or Fedora 15
10 and newer for example, are fine.
12 spice-vdagent relies on ConsoleKit to determine the active session, since
13 RHEL-5 has no ConsoleKit it cannot do this on RHEL-5, therefor only 1
14 active X-session is supported with RHEL-5. If you try to start multiple
15 sessions by running multiple X-servers the agent will disable itself.
17 Since the RHEL-5 X-server does not support hotplugging of input devices,
18 spice-vdagentd must be started before the X-server, so that it can create
19 the uinput tablet device it uses for agent mouse mode.
21 This also means that you must use a customized xorg.conf to teach the
22 X-server about the uinput device. An example xorg.conf is included with
23 spice-vdagent. After installing spice-vdagent, first start spice-vdagentd,
24 and then copy this file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and restart your X-server.
26 Note: the sample xorg.conf assumes that the vm has been configured to *not*
27 use a usb tablet device, since there is no need for one with the agent and
28 usb emulation takes a significant amount of CPU.
30 Building from source for RHEL-5
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33 If you're building spice-vdagent from source on RHEL-5, you must pass
34 --disable-console-kit --enable-static-uinput to ./configure!