Oops: spice configured but not active

[Alexandr]

with latest qemu-kvm from git i have following problem:

 /usr/bin/kvm -daemonize -smp 4 -cpu host -vga qxl -enable-kvm -m 4096 -localtime -drive file=/home/sss/vm/win_xp/tmp_sys.img,if=virtio,media=disk,cache=none -drive file=/home/sss/vm/data.img,if=virtio,media=disk,cache=none -net nic,vlan=0,model=virtio,macaddr=6a:94:fc:2d:b9:04 -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=vtap0,script=no -usb -usbdevice tablet -name "Windows XP qt" -spice port=5934,addr=127.0.0.1,ipv4,playback-compression=off,disable-ticketing -monitor telnet::4448,server,nowait -device virtio-serial -chardev spicevmc,id=vdagent,name=vdagent -device virtserialport,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.spice.0 -balloon virtio
qemu-system-x86_64: Oops: spice configured but not active

[Alon Levy (alonlevy1)]

Seems commit ad1be89948f88e89708b04ccd782456ccec3a6f0 from qemu needs to go in to qemu-kvm.

Could you try that and report if it fixes the issue for you?

commit ad1be89948f88e89708b04ccd782456ccec3a6f0
Author: Alon Levy <email address hidden>
Date: Wed Mar 14 20:33:37 2012 +0200

    spice: fix broken initialization

    Commit 1b71f7c14fab6f00c2680d4489fbee7baf796e4f moved MODULE_INIT_QOM to
    way before MODULE_INIT_MACHINE, thereby breaking assumptions made in
    spice-core.c which registered both a type initializer and a machine
    intializer.

    This fix removes the type registration, and replaces it with calling
    qemu_spice_init in vl.c after command line parsing (second pass) is
    done, and after timers are armed, required by spice server.

    Signed-off-by: Alon Levy <email address hidden>
    Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <email address hidden>

diff --git a/ui/spice-core.c b/ui/spice-core.c
index 80535b6..a468524 100644
--- a/ui/spice-core.c
+++ b/ui/spice-core.c
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ void qemu_spice_init(void)

     qemu_thread_get_self(&me);

- if (!opts) {
+ if (!opts) {
         return;
     }
     port = qemu_opt_get_number(opts, "port", 0);
@@ -787,10 +787,3 @@ static void spice_register_config(void)
     qemu_add_opts(&qemu_spice_opts);
 }
 machine_init(spice_register_config);
-
-static void spice_register_types(void)
-{
- qemu_spice_init();
-}
-
-type_init(spice_register_types)
diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index bd95539..eeb634b 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -3369,6 +3369,11 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
         exit(1);
     }

+#ifdef CONFIG_SPICE
+ /* spice needs the timers to be initialized by this point */
+ qemu_spice_init();
+#endif
+
     if (icount_option && (kvm_enabled() || xen_enabled())) {
         fprintf(stderr, "-icount is not allowed with kvm or xen\n");
         exit(1);

[Alexandr (sss123next)]

thx, this solves problem, but patches failed, i have to edit code manually

[Thomas Huth (th-huth)]

Commit ad1be89948f88e8 has been included long ago, so let's set this ticket to "Fix released" now.