[fedora-virt] Spice problem

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Sat Jul 6 13:08:44 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 09:40:22AM +0200, Eric Viseur wrote:
> ((null):6425): Spice-Warning **:
> reds.c:2977:reds_init_socket: getaddrinfo(127.0.0.1,5900): Address family
> for hostname not supported
> qemu-kvm: failed to initialize spice server
> 
> I don't understand from where it comes, since the local loop interface is
> up.  Can anyone help me on this ?  Thanks !

What is in /etc/hosts for localhost?

IPv6 loopback is ::1, not 127.0.0.1.  In my /etc/hosts I have two
separate entries:

127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
::1             localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6


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