[Spice-devel] problems with cut n paste - WinXP VM specificall

[Alon Levy]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 08:05:53PM -0500, Mike Hinz wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
> I'd like to be able to use the cut n paste function between a host
> machine a VM.  Here's what I've tried and found so far.
> 
> Host is a F15-64 bit system with virt-preview repo enabled and
> everything fully updated.
> 
> First VM is F16-64bit-beta-rc3 with everything fully updated.  Cut and
> paste works perfectly between that VM and the host.  All I had to do was
> to install spice-vdagent and viola, it worked!
> 
> Second VM is WinXP-SP3 with the qxl video driver, the virtio-serial
> driver, and the vdagent all installed within the VM.  All these were
> downloaded from the spice-space.org website and are the latest versions
> on the download page.  Examining the WinXP device manager and the admin
> console to check services, it appears to me that all 3 drivers are
> correctly loaded.  Certainly sound works and the video is quite good
> quality so I'm sure that major portions of everything are indeed working
> correctly.  
> 
> This WinXP VM will not cut n paste at all.  I've struggled to find the
> issue and the only clues I have are as follows:
> 
> In the log file /var/log/libvirt/qemu/winxp.log, I see the following 3
> lines when I attempt to copy a bit of text from within Wordpad in the
> VM:
> 
> main_channel_release_pipe_item: SPICE_MSG_MAIN_AGENT_DATA 0x3d2dea0
> 0x3d2d040, 0
> main_channel_release_pipe_item: SPICE_MSG_MAIN_AGENT_DATA 0x3d2dea0
> 0x3d26cc0, 0
> dispatch_vdi_port_data: invalid port
> 

Can you try spicec and report? Can you try to restart vdagent in the
guest and report?

> I also did 'virt-manager --debug' to see if I could see any relevant
> messages there and I see the following:
> 
> (virt-manager:2574): GSpice-CRITICAL **: agent_clipboard_request:
> assertion `c->agent_connected' failed
> 
> followed by
> 
> (virt-manager:2574): GSpice-WARNING **: clipboard get timed out
> 
> Which then seem to report every time to you try to copy something from
> within the VM.  
> 
> The above log messages look wrong to me, so I wanted to report them to
> see if there's something obvious.  
> 
> What's next?  Should I file this as a bug and if so where?
> -- 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
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