[Spice-devel] Agent crashes on Alpine Linux guest due to lack of /dev/uinput

let-me-use-copy-and-paste let-me-use-copy-and-paste at proton.me
Sun Nov 6 07:02:12 UTC 2022


I installed Alpine Linux 3.16 virtual machine edition on QEMU/KVM using Virt-Manager. I installed XFCE on it. I wanted to enable copy-and-paste, so I tried to install spice-vdagent on it, but it kept crashing. I checked the output using the "-x" parameter, and basically, it crashed due to the lack of /dev/uinput. The screenshot is at https://i.imgur.com/9WKaVG8.png

I do not know Linux much, so I am not sure if /dev/uinput is not present due to the settings of the virtual machine or because I have not installed something on Alpine Linux. I tried the standard edition of Alpine, and right after the installation, /dev/uinput was not present.

In case that Alpine Linux indeed does not support /dev/uinput, can't the spice service run anyway? All I want is text copy-and-paste between the host and the guest, and does that feature need /dev/uinput?


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