vm will not start

Bug #1484118 reported by Randy
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-boxes (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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spice (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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Bug Description

When creating a new VM from an iso, Click though the wizard to create. When the VM is powering up I get the following error:

(gnome-boxes:4687): Boxes-WARNING **: machine.vala:594: Failed to start ubuntu-15: Unable to start domain: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: spice-qemu-char: unsupported type: smartcard
allowed names: vdagent, usbredir
2015-08-12T13:23:12.740209Z qemu-system-x86_64: -chardev spicevmc,id=charsmartcard0,name=smartcard: Failed to create chardev

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: gnome-boxes 3.16.2-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.1.0-3.3-generic 4.1.3
Uname: Linux 4.1.0-3-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.18-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed Aug 12 09:24:40 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-30 (285 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-boxes
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Randy (randy-duran) wrote :
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Laurent Bigonville (bigon) wrote :

This is happening because spice library is not compiled with the smartcard option

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Laurent Bigonville (bigon) wrote :

Spice 0.12.5-1.1 is now compiled with smartcard support

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Randy (randy-duran) wrote :

Yep, looks like it's working now. thanks.

Changed in spice (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
Changed in gnome-boxes (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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