[fedora-virt] virt-manager with spice support

[Andrew Cathrow]

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From: "Avi Alkalay" <avi at unix.sh> 
To: virt at lists.fedoraproject.org 
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 6:52:56 AM 
Subject: Re: [fedora-virt] virt-manager with spice support 

OK, so docs for the 'qemu -spice' parameters can be found at http://www.spice-space.org/docs/spice_user_manual.pdf and indeed there is no 'addr=' but 'host='. So apparently libvirt 0.8.7 needs to fix that. 


BTW, even if I set the qemu spice server to listen on any address (either through virt-manager or manually removing the 'listen=' from the XML file), libvirt 0.8.7 goes and adds an annoying 'addr=0.0.0.0' which makes qemu to fail to start. 



Now I'll try to write a temporary shell wrapper to transform 'addr' into 'host' until libvirt gets fixed. libvirt based it's syntax on the upstream support for spice (qem u 0.14) which uses -addr syntax. 

http://qemu.weilnetz.de/qemu-doc.html 








Regards, 
Avi 


On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 05:15, Avi Alkalay <avi at unix.sh> wrote: 


Thanks Cole. On Fedora, it worked with '--enablerepo=updates-testing' but apparently there is a bug on libvirt where it fails to transform a Spice configuration entry from the XML file into a correct '-spice' qemu command line argument. 


On the XML, libvirt/virt-manager generates: 


<graphics type='spice' autoport='yes' listen='127.0.0.1'/> 


But VM fails to boot with this error: 



qemu-kvm: -spice port=5901,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing: Invalid parameter 'addr' 
parse error: port=5901,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing 


So 'addr' is invalid for qemu -spice and the man page doesn't say much about it. 


Any hint? My software levels: 



bash# rpm -qa | egrep -e "virt|qemu|spice" | grep -v virtuoso | sort 
gpxe-roms-qemu-1.0.1-1.fc14.noarch 
kmod-kqemu-1.4.0-0.2.pre1.fc14.23.x86_64 
kmod-kqemu-2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64-1.4.0-0.2.pre1.fc14.23.x86_64 
kqemu-1.4.0-0.5.pre1.fc14.noarch 
libvirt-0.8.7-1.fc14.x86_64 
libvirt-client-0.8.7-1.fc14.x86_64 
libvirt-python-0.8.7-1.fc14.x86_64 
python-virtinst-0.500.5-1.fc14.noarch 
qemu-common-0.13.0-1.fc14.x86_64 
qemu-img-0.13.0-1.fc14.x86_64 
qemu-kvm-0.13.0-1.fc14.x86_64 
qemu-system-x86-0.13.0-1.fc14.x86_64 
qemu-user-0.13.0-1.fc14.x86_64 
spice-client-0.7.2-1.fc14.x86_64 
spice-glib-0.5-1.fc14.x86_64 
spice-gtk-0.5-1.fc14.x86_64 
spice-gtk-python-0.5-1.fc14.x86_64 
spice-gtk-tools-0.5-1.fc14.x86_64 
spice-protocol-0.7.0-2.fc14.noarch 
spice-server-0.7.2-1.fc14.x86_64 
virt-manager-0.8.6-1.fc14.noarch 
virt-top-1.0.4-3.fc13.x86_64 
virt-viewer-0.2.1-1.fc13.x86_64 


Thanks in advance, 
Avi 




On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 12:18, Cole Robinson < crobinso at redhat.com > wrote: 



On 02/05/2011 02:50 PM, Avi Alkalay wrote: 
> Hello 
> 
> I'm trying to install your virt-manager 0.8.6 RPM for F14 with spice support 
> but yum can't find spice-gtk-python package. 
> Which repo is it available so I can get it running ? 
> 

You can get it from rawhide. So 

yum --enablerepo=rawhide install spice-gtk-python 

In the future, please direct questions to virt at lists.fedoraproject.org 

Thanks, 
Cole 



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