[Spice-devel] Spice, GStreamer and seccomp issue

[Kevin Pouget]

Hello,

I share for information the problem and solution I encountered why
trying to run spice-server gstreamer encoding on Fedora30:

> warning: GStreamer: External plugin loader failed. This most likely means that the plugin loader helper binary was not found or could not be run. You might need to set the GST_PLUGIN_SCANNER environment variable if your setup is unusual. This should normally not be required though.

this was due to seccomp syscall filtering, as my (virsh) VM was
running with this option:

> -sandbox on,obsolete=deny,elevateprivileges=deny,spawn=deny,resourcecontrol=deny

I don't know what is the clean way to solve it, but patching qemu to
force "-sandbox off" gets rid of the codec issue


regards,

Kevin