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

Thu Oct 27 14:52:37 UTC 2022

Something by chance?

El mar, 25 oct 2022 a las 18:16, Carlos González (<piteccelaya at gmail.com>)
escribió:

> Already did; it did work, thanks (and yes, it's always Virtual-1 for some
> reason).
> I couldn't understand it very well from the bug report, why isn't it
> automatically working on some DEs/WMs?
>
> Now, could we focus on the nasty bug with file transferring? As already
> mentioned, the -f and -o options are serving of absolutely nothing...
>
> Thanks.
>
> El lun, 24 oct 2022 a las 9:16, Uri Lublin (<uril at redhat.com>) escribió:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 11:52 PM Carlos González <piteccelaya at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> So I did more tests.
>>>
>>> First, AntiX Linux by default doesn't use "desktop environments" but
>>> "window managers", being the default IceWM. Also, it doesn't use SystemD at
>>> all; SysV instead. Regarding Xorg or Wayland, it's Xorg.
>>>
>>> > I did some tests and with both Windows and Linux it appears that the
>>> > agent is needed.
>>>
>>> Well, of course it's needed! That's per basic instructions...
>>>
>>> Since there's no SystemD here, neither journalctl command. So tried
>>> running both spice-vdagentd and spice-vdagent with debugging:
>>> sudo /usr/sbin/spice-vdagentd -x -d -d
>>> spice-vdagent -f /path/to/folder -x -d -d
>>>
>>> When resizing the remote-viewer window, no logs whatsoever, and of
>>> course neither resolution update. Also, using the -f option served of
>>> nothing; exact same error mentioned before...
>>> Neither anything at all related in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>>> *Only* clipboard sharing seems to work
>>>
>>
>> Try the workaround mentioned on the bug, run on the guest (after resizing
>> remote-viewer's window):
>>     xrandr | grep Virtual                  # look for the connected one
>>     xrandr --output Virtual-0 --auto # may be Virtual-1 instead of
>> Virtual-0
>>
>> Uri.
>>
>>
>>> By chance, do you think you could give the live ISO a try? It's a live
>>> system, and the "Base" version is a CD size, not even a DVD...
>>>
>>> Thanks again for your attention.
>>>
>>> El mié, 19 oct 2022 a las 15:00, Uri Lublin (<uril at redhat.com>)
>>> escribió:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 8:40 PM Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Il giorno mar 18 ott 2022 alle ore 01:04 Carlos González
>>>>> <piteccelaya at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Were you able to find something by chance? Thanks.
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Carlos,
>>>>>    my main curiosity was about the need of the agent for resize.
>>>>> I did some tests and with both Windows and Linux it appears that the
>>>>> agent is needed.
>>>>> At this point I would try looking at the agent logs.
>>>>> Is your system using Xorg or Wayland ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>    Frediano
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I agree with Frediano that (with a recent QXL device) the arbitrary
>>>> resolution update is done via QXL.
>>>> Note that it does not work for all Desktop Environments, and I
>>>> apparently it doesn't work for AntiX Linux (default DE).
>>>> If you can, try to run with GNOME/X11 and see if that works.
>>>>
>>>> Related bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1290586
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>     Uri.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > El sáb, 15 oct 2022 a las 9:22, Frediano Ziglio (<freddy77 at gmail.com>)
>>>>> escribió:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Il giorno ven 14 ott 2022 alle ore 16:11 Carlos González
>>>>> >> <piteccelaya at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> > 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...
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Maybe you would need to logout and login again from the graphic
>>>>> >> session. Or manually start it, not sure.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> > How do I specify an output directory for the agent to file
>>>>> transfer?
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> See "spice-vdagent --help", specifically -f and -o options.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> > 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.
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> I'll check, maybe is not handled by driver but agent
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> > 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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