[Spice-devel] Spice agent and LXC

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Thu Nov 27 01:50:18 PST 2014


On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 05:16:52PM -0600, Charles Ricketts wrote:
> Yes, I had seen those options. That was part of why I was asking about the
> ucds socket. I found now that the ucds socket is used to talk to multiple
> agents. I have tried both setting each argument to specify the paths of
> each piece (ucds socket, uinput, and virtio port) and letting Xspice set
> them up automatically. Xspice by default re-creates these devices as
> sockets and pipes, so it seems that Xspice is actually ideal for this
> purpose; there is no need to create the devices by hand. However, any way
> it's done even with the newest sources results in the same thing. In the
> Fedora LXC under Ubuntu 14.04, I get a display but no agent functionality
> for some reason even though the same ucds port is used by both agentd and
> agent. In an Ubuntu 14.04 LXC container I can't even get X to start via the
> Xspice script or a direct call to X because it segfaults when using the
> spiceqxl driver.
> 
> There also appears to be no difference between letting the Xspice script
> start the agents or starting the agents by hand, which isn't unexpected.
> 

Have you tried all of this without lxc to see how well/bad it works
without adding lxc to the mix?

Christophe
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