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

Thu Oct 27 16:55:13 UTC 2022

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 5:52 PM Carlos González <piteccelaya at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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?
>>
>
The QXL driver notifies the DE/WM about the new resolution.
Many DEs/WMs do not listen for such a notification.

>> Now, could we focus on the nasty bug with file transferring? As already
>> mentioned, the -f and -o options are serving of absolutely nothing...
>>
>
Does it help if you run spice-vdagent -xd -f $HOME ?
Did you try other directories with -f ?

Uri.

>> 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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