Fedora 15 guest on Fedora 15 Host (KVM + SPICE + QXL) is graphically unresponsive

[luck02]

I've installed a FC15 guest on my FC15 host.

The host machine has more then enough memory and CPU to run it, however it can't drive any decent resolution and seems painfully slow.

I'm seeing the following in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log file:

[ 194.694] Cache contents: null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null 560 865 357 454 510 555 973 1014 837 total: 9
[ 194.706] - 1th attempt
[ 194.706] - OOM at 1033 849 32
[ 194.706] Cache contents: null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null 560 865 357 454 510 555 973 1014 837 total: 9
[ 194.717] - 2th attempt
[ 194.717] - OOM at 1033 849 32
[ 194.717] Cache contents: null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null null 560 865 357 454 510 555 973 1014 837 total: 9
[ 194.729] Out of video memory: Could not allocate 3512200 bytes
[ 212.525] Bad bpp: 1 (1)
[ 412.875] Bad bpp: 1 (1)

Repeated many times... Any ideas?

Thank you,

Gary

Additional notes:
I have quite a few other VM's running fine... It seems to only be the FC15 machine. Here's the kvm xml file:
<domain type='kvm'>
<name>FC15</name>
<uuid>c90816ea-3ba4-d325-a5b9-1ef44f7e08c5</uuid>
<memory>6238208</memory>
<currentMemory>6238208</currentMemory>
<vcpu>6</vcpu>
<os>
<type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-0.14'>hvm</type>
<boot dev='hd'/>
</os>
<features>
<acpi/>
<apic/>
<pae/>
</features>
<cpu match='exact'>
<model>Nehalem</model>
<vendor>Intel</vendor>
<feature policy='require' name='tm2'/>
<feature policy='require' name='est'/>
<feature policy='require' name='vmx'/>
<feature policy='require' name='ds'/>
<feature policy='require' name='ss'/>
<feature policy='require' name='vme'/>
<feature policy='require' name='rdtscp'/>
<feature policy='require' name='ht'/>
<feature policy='require' name='dca'/>
<feature policy='require' name='pbe'/>
<feature policy='require' name='tm'/>
<feature policy='require' name='pdpe1gb'/>
<feature policy='require' name='ds_cpl'/>
<feature policy='require' name='xtpr'/>
<feature policy='require' name='acpi'/>
<feature policy='require' name='monitor'/>
</cpu>
<clock offset='utc'/>
<on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
<on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
<on_crash>restart</on_crash>
<devices>
<emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator>
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/>
<source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/FC15Home.img'/>
<target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/>
</disk>
<disk type='file' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/>
<source file='/mnt/raid/StorageDiskImages/FC15Data.img'/>
<target dev='vdb' bus='virtio'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/>
</disk>
<disk type='block' device='cdrom'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
<target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
<readonly/>
<address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' unit='0'/>
</disk>
<controller type='ide' index='0'>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/>
</controller>
<controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/>
</controller>
<interface type='bridge'>
<mac address='52:54:00:ad:24:5b'/>
<source bridge='br0'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>
</interface>
<serial type='pty'>
<target port='0'/>
</serial>
<console type='pty'>
<target type='serial' port='0'/>
</console>
<channel type='spicevmc'>
<target type='virtio' name='com.redhat.spice.0'/>
<address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/>
</channel>
<input type='tablet' bus='usb'/>
<input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
<graphics type='spice' autoport='yes'/>
<sound model='es1370'>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
</sound>
<video>
<model type='qxl' vram='65536' heads='1'/>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
</video>
<memballoon model='virtio'>
<address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x08' function='0x0'/>
</memballoon>
</devices>
</domain>

I added the ram parameter, it isn't helping but the issues described we're present before I added it.

[luck02]

I'm still having problems with this? Anyone else?

[KenJackson]

My experience isn't quite the same as yours, but there are similarities.

I'm running an Arch Linux guest on a Fedora 15 host. KVM + SDL seems to run OK, so I compiled and installed the QXL drivers on the Arch guest and started it with spice and ran the spice client.

Awful! For one thing, when spicec is running, it interferes with an unrelated xterm that happens to be open on the host (a few rows of pixels are hidden in the last row of text).

Also, the whole display seems to freeze every few seconds. Pressing SHIFT-F11 twice to go into and out of full screen shakes it loose usually, but it got so frozen that I actually had to reboot the host once.

They really made the sales pitch for spice, and I was excited about it. But I think we should consider it alpha for now. Or maybe it's the qxl drivers--I don't know what the problem is.