[Spice-devel] spice-vdagent.service not starting

[Frediano Ziglio]

> I checked almost all possible options along with some forums...

> Seems like the channel itself is not getting detected by the host.

By the host? They are in the client as SPICE channels and in the guest. 

> Like we enable nested VM, is there something that we should do to enable
> channel communication?

So the host is also a guest? Is not clear. 

> I installed Debian on GCP & that too came without the file in /dev

Is the virtio_console module loaded? This module should be providing the files in the guest 

> However, when I installed elementary OS on a KVM host (Host: GCP, KVM, /dev
> file not present) through virt manager, inside elementary it’s showing the
> exact file under /dev.

So... are you saying you installed Elementary OS on a KVM _GUEST_ inside Google Could Platform, right? 

> This is giving me strong doubt that I am missing something to enable.. What
> do you think?

I'm starting to be confused. 

By the way if spice-vdagentd exits showing the usage help this is not due to a missing 
device, a missing device is reported differently. One error will hide the other. 

> Regards,

> Emmanual

> Sent from Mail for Windows 10

> From: Frediano Ziglio
> Sent: 23 November 2018 02:25 AM
> To: Emmanual Vnebu
> Cc: spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] spice-vdagent.service not starting

> Looks like there's a kind of "virus" that set /etc/sysconfig/spice-vdagentd
> file incorrectly.

> Try to dump the file like

> $ cat /etc/sysconfig/spice-vdagentd

> or even better

> $ hexdump -C /etc/sysconfig/spice-vdagentd

> We already has some report of this file with wrong syntax. Looks like some
> web pages are

> suggesting some wrong syntax. I'm not aware of any distro that package this
> file wrongly

> (should not even exist).

> Obviously can be another issue but worth checking.

> Frediano

> > Guest is WIN Server 2k12.

> > On configuration, “Channel Spice” is showing as below.

> > Please see some below screenshot for journalctl

> > Sent from Mail for Windows 10

> > From: Frediano Ziglio

> > Sent: 22 November 2018 02:06 PM

> > To: Emmanual Vnebu

> > Cc: spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org

> > Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] spice-vdagent.service not starting

> > Is there the /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0 on the guest (should be a

> > link)?

> > On the configuration should be "Channel spice", click on it, on the right

> > there

> > should be a text with "com.redhat.spice.0".

> > Also try to launch a "journalctl | grep -i spice | less" to see systemd

> > messages

> > for spice.

> > Frediano

> > > Thanks for your responds Frediano.

> >

> > > Please find below screenshot of the spice-vdagentd.soket file & VM
> > > config.

> >

> > > Would you be able to suggest what should I do to get this working please?

> >

> > > Regards,

> >

> > > Emmanual

> >

> > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10

> >

> > > From: Frediano Ziglio

> >

> > > Sent: 21 November 2018 09:31 PM

> >

> > > To: Emmanual Vnebu

> >

> > > Cc: spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org

> >

> > > Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] spice-vdagent.service not starting

> >

> > > > Hi,

> >

> > > > I am trying to setup a VDI on a physical machine & cloud environment in

> >

> > > > parallel.

> >

> > > > I got the virtual machines running along with dashboards, websocxify

> > > > etc..

> >

> > > > However, I am stuck at where I have to use spice-vdagentd service.

> >

> > > > The service keep failing due to dependency error. Below is missing in

> > > > both

> >

> > > > machines.

> >

> > > > dev-virtio\ports-com.redhat.spice.0.device

> >

> > > The correct device is dev-virtio\x2dports-com.redhat.spice.0.device

> >

> > > (in the /usr/lib/systemd/system/spice-vdagentd.socket file) which

> > > corresponds

> >

> > > to /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0, if you don't have this file it

> >

> > > means you didn't configure the SPICE channel in the VM.

> >

> > > > I am not sure what am I missing.

> >

> > > > Attached is modules loaded along with packages for both cloud &
> > > > physical

> >

> > > > machine.

> >

> > > > Cloud you please help & suggest how can I fix it.

> >

> > > > Regards,

> >

> > > > Emmanual

> >

> > > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10

> >

> > > Frediano

> >
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