[fedora-virt] virt-manager with spice support

[Alon Levy]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 03:44:59PM -0200, Avi Alkalay wrote:
> Ok, so the 'host=' argument is unsupported on qemu 0.13 and the spice
> documentation is wrong.

so the user guide pdf is wrong?

> 
> Attached is a qemu wrapper script that you can save under the
> name /tmp/qemu-libvirt-spice-fixer.

cool, didn't know you can do += in bash.

> Then you edit your /etc/libvirt/qemu/myvm.xml and change the emulator line
> to this:
> 
>     <emulator>/tmp/qemu-libvirt-spice-fixer</emulator>
> 
> Now use virt-manager 0.8.6 to create a spice display or simply add it
> manually to /etc/libvirt/qemu/myvm.xml like this:
> 
>     <graphics type='spice' autoport='yes'/>
> 
> Restart libvirt and boot your VMs.
> You can now use spicy to connect to your VMs.
> 
> This is quite dirty and insecure cause anybody anywhere will be able to
> connect to your VMs with the spice protocol. But we are testing new stuff
> here, right!?
You could still supply a password, and use tls.

> 
> You can clean the mess when qemu 0.14 will be available so all these
> workaround won't be needed anymore. Hopefully.
> 
> Regards,
> Avi
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 14:47, Avi Alkalay <avi at unix.sh> wrote:
> 
> > Meanwhile I can't test and play with none of these features because the
> > newest packaged qemu I can find is 0.13 which doesn't support parameters
> > that libvirt generates.
> >
> > :-(
> >
> > I'm not willing to compile qemu 0.14 just to test spice.
> >
> > Unless you guys have another tip or hidden repo to point me...
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Avi
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:30, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> >
> >> On 10/02/11 14:21, Cole Robinson wrote:
> >>
> >> > You'll need qemu-0.14 for this to work, however it doesn't look like the
> >> > release candidate has been built for rawhide yet.
> >>
> >> Or for virt-preview, which makes it rather hard to test new features
> >> like this...
> >>
> >> The virt-preview repo has also been broken for several days now because
> >> the new virt-manager packager wants spice-gtk-python which isn't there.
> >>
> >> Tom
> >>
> >> --
> >> Tom Hughes (tom at compton.nu)
> >> http://compton.nu/
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> >
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