Ubuntu
virt-viewer package

virt-viewer lacks SPICE support

Bug #1212979 reported by Juerg Haefliger
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virt-viewer (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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Bug Description

Virt-viewer 0.5.4-1 for Raring doesn't support the SPICE protocol.

Trying to connect to a SPICE'd VM results in 'Unknown graphic type for the guest'.

$ ldd /usr/bin/virt-viewer | grep spice
$

After adding SPICE support and recompiling the package, I can successfully connect to a SPICE'd VM and:

$ ldd ./virt-viewer | grep spice
 libspice-client-gtk-3.0.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libspice-client-gtk-3.0.so.4 (0x00007f2f5ffe6000)
 libspice-client-glib-2.0.so.8 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libspice-client-glib-2.0.so.8 (0x00007f2f5f61f000)

To add SPICE support, I simply added 'libspice-client-gtk-3.0-dev' to the Build-Depends list in debian/control.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in virt-viewer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Fantu (fantonifabio) wrote :

enable spice in configure is needed, was added after, since 0.5.4-2

Changed in virt-viewer (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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