[Spice-devel] Vdagent not working on a Debian guest

[Carlos González]

As soon as spice-vdagent package is installed, so is the spice-vdagentd
daemon and it also starts running. Yet I always need to manually run
spice-vdagent command...

How do I specify an output directory for the agent to file transfer?

I don't think it's remote-viewer's fault, because I also tested with a
Windows guest. With all SPICE stuff properly installed, everything works
out of the box: clipboard, resizing, file transfer from host to guest. With
"properly installed" I mean: installed SPICE drivers manually from
virtio-win ISO by loading them since the Windows installation beforehand,
then once booted into Windows downloaded the vdagent ZIP from spice-space
website and manually installed the service according to instructions.

As additional detail, in QEMU I use the option "-display spice-app", which
automatically starts remote-viewer; though curiously it doesn't seem to
create a virt-viewer directory inside ~/.config unlike when running
remote-viewer manually...

Thanks again.

El vie, 14 oct 2022 a las 12:41, Frediano Ziglio (<freddy77 at gmail.com>)
escribió:

> Il giorno gio 13 ott 2022 alle ore 16:58 Carlos González
> <piteccelaya at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> >
> > Hello.
> >
> > I'm trying a virtual machine with a live CD distribution called AntiX
> Linux, which is directly based on Debian.
> >
> > I'm using direct QEMU commands.
> > In the VM configuration I have this for SPICE configuration:
> > "-vga qxl -device virtio-serial-pci -spice
> unix=on,addr=path/to/vm_spice.socket,disable-ticketing=on -chardev
> spicevmc,id=spicechannel0,name=vdagent -device
> virtserialport,chardev=spicechannel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0 \"
> > Then I boot the live ISO, double check that QXL driver is installed
> -which normally always is-, and install spice-vdagent package (version 20
> here). I'm using remote-viewer (virt-viewer) to visualize the VM.
> >
> > Up to this point, clipboard sharing with host still doesn't work, and
> trying to drag a file from host to guest results in an error "The agent is
> not connected".
> >
>
> This error is normal if the agent is stopped.
>
> > So I manually run "spice-vdagent" command, and clipboard sharing now
> works, but trying to drag file from host to guest gives "File transfer is
> disabled". Also, automatic resolution change with window resizing doesn't
> work either.
> >
>
> The fact that in this way the clipboard is running indicates that the
> agent is now working. You need to specify an output directory to the
> agent in order to get file transfer working.
> About the resolution change that's weird, I think that feature on
> Linux does not even require the agent running. Is it possible that the
> client (remove-viewer) is not set up to send resize to the guest
> automatically, there are some options on the menu.
>
> > Certainly, this live distro doesn't come with any spice-related packages
> installed by default, except for the QXL package.
> >
> > Am I missing something here? Could someone help please?
> > Thanks beforehand.
>
> Frediano
>
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