Re: qemu/kvm spice console problem

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 22:23:05 +0100
Zoltán Herman <zoltanhbz@gmail.com> wrote:

> If started in terminal as root?

I'm not sure what you're asking, but the graphical console works here
even when I launch virt-manager as my regular user (although that user
is a member of groups libvirt, kvm, and adm).

Also, I should note that I'm running Stretch.

> 2017. dec. 28. 10:01 du. ezt írta ("Celejar" <celejar@gmail.com>):
> 
> > On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 23:14:31 -0500
> > Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> wrote:
> >
> > > When I try to start a virtual machine, I get the error:
> > >
> > > Error connecting to graphical console:
> > > Error opening Spice console, SpiceClientGtk missing
> > >
> > > on whichever VM I try to start.
> > >
> > > The Virtual Machine Manager shows the VM is running but I can't connect.
> > > The system running the VMs is Debian/Stretch while my workstation is
> > > Debian/Buster. This worked until fairly recently (I don't start up the
> > > VMs too often, but I'm sure I did sometime in the last month). So far as
> > > I can tell, spice is running on both the host and client machines.
> > >
> > > Any ideas on what's changed to cause this problem?
> >
> > No, but I do remember that when I installed virt* packages, it took a
> > fair bit of sleuthing / trial and error to figure out which spice
> > packages needed to be installed to get the graphical console to work.
> > Here's what I currently have:
> >
> > $ apt list --installed '*spice*'
> > Listing... Done
> > gir1.2-spice-client-glib-2.0/stable,now 0.33-3.3 amd64
> > [installed,automatic]
> > gir1.2-spice-client-gtk-3.0/stable,now 0.33-3.3 amd64
> > [installed,automatic]
> > libspice-client-glib-2.0-8/stable,now 0.33-3.3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
> > libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5/stable,now 0.33-3.3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
> > libspice-server1/stable,stable,now 0.12.8-2.1+deb9u1 amd64
> > [installed,automatic]
> > spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper/stable,now 0.33-3.3 amd64
> > [installed,automatic]
> >
> > Celejar
> >
> >


Celejar