<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div> </div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div> </div><style></style><div class="WordSection1">I checked almost all possible options along with some forums...Seems like the channel itself is not getting detected by the host.</div></blockquote><div>By the host? They are in the client as SPICE channels and in the guest. </div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="WordSection1">Like we enable nested VM, is there something that we should do to enable channel communication?</div></blockquote><div>So the host is also a guest? Is not clear. </div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="WordSection1">I installed Debian on GCP & that too came without the file in /dev</div></blockquote><div>Is the virtio_console module loaded? This module should be providing the files in the guest </div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="WordSection1">However, when I installed elementary OS on a KVM host (Host: GCP, KVM, /dev file not present) through virt manager, inside elementary it’s showing the exact file under /dev.</div></blockquote><div>So... are you saying you installed Elementary OS on a KVM _GUEST_ inside Google Could Platform, right? </div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="WordSection1">This is giving me strong doubt that I am missing something to enable.. What do you think?</div></blockquote><div>I'm starting to be confused. </div><div> </div><div>By the way if spice-vdagentd exits showing the usage help this is not due to a missing </div><div>device, a missing device is reported differently. One error will hide the other. </div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="WordSection1">Regards,EmmanualSent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10<div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm" data-mce-style="mso-element: para-border-div; border: none; border-top: solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt; padding: 3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;">From: <a href="mailto:fziglio@redhat.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:fziglio@redhat.com">Frediano Ziglio</a> Sent: 23 November 2018 02:25 AM To: <a href="mailto:emmanualvnebu1@gmail.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:emmanualvnebu1@gmail.com">Emmanual Vnebu</a> Cc: <a href="mailto:spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] spice-vdagent.service not starting</div>Looks like there's a kind of "virus" that set /etc/sysconfig/spice-vdagentd file incorrectly.Try to dump the file like$ cat /etc/sysconfig/spice-vdagentdor even better$ hexdump -C /etc/sysconfig/spice-vdagentdWe already has some report of this file with wrong syntax. Looks like some web pages aresuggesting some wrong syntax. I'm not aware of any distro that package this file wrongly(should not even exist).Obviously can be another issue but worth checking.Frediano> Guest is WIN Server 2k12.> On configuration, “Channel Spice” is showing as below.> Please see some below screenshot for journalctl> Sent from Mail for Windows 10> From: Frediano Ziglio> Sent: 22 November 2018 02:06 PM> To: Emmanual Vnebu> Cc: spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org> Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] spice-vdagent.service not starting> Is there the /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0 on the guest (should be a> link)?> On the configuration should be "Channel spice", click on it, on the right> there> should be a text with "com.redhat.spice.0".> Also try to launch a "journalctl | grep -i spice | less" to see systemd> messages> for spice.> Frediano> > Thanks for your responds Frediano.>> > Please find below screenshot of the spice-vdagentd.soket file & VM config.>> > Would you be able to suggest what should I do to get this working please?>> > Regards,>> > Emmanual>> > Sent from Mail for Windows 10>> > From: Frediano Ziglio>> > Sent: 21 November 2018 09:31 PM>> > To: Emmanual Vnebu>> > Cc: spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>> > Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] spice-vdagent.service not starting>> > > Hi,>> > > I am trying to setup a VDI on a physical machine & cloud environment in>> > > parallel.>> > > I got the virtual machines running along with dashboards, websocxify> > > etc..>> > > However, I am stuck at where I have to use spice-vdagentd service.>> > > The service keep failing due to dependency error. Below is missing in> > > both>> > > machines.>> > > dev-virtio\ports-com.redhat.spice.0.device>> > The correct device is dev-virtio\x2dports-com.redhat.spice.0.device>> > (in the /usr/lib/systemd/system/spice-vdagentd.socket file) which> > corresponds>> > to /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0, if you don't have this file it>> > means you didn't configure the SPICE channel in the VM.>> > > I am not sure what am I missing.>> > > Attached is modules loaded along with packages for both cloud & physical>> > > machine.>> > > Cloud you please help & suggest how can I fix it.>> > > Regards,>> > > Emmanual>> > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10>> > Frediano></div></blockquote><div> </div></div></body></html>