please enable spice support

[Serge Hallyn]

Once the spice packages are synced from debian, enable spice support in qemu-kvm.

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Since spice is in universe, we can't have qemu-kvm depend on it. This debdiff creates a new qemu-kvm-spice package which just installs the spice-enabled binaries, called 'kvm-spice' etc.

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[Dave Walker (davewalker)]

libcelt051-dev doesn't seem to be in Oneiric? the qemu-kvm debdiff still seems to build-depend on spice packages, which means it will dep wait if uploaded, as only main is available in the build env.

At this point, it seems saner to make this a P target - unless we consider it a release blocker.

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[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

@Dave,

hmm, good point. I wonder why it built for me then. Yes, that dependency should be removed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Fabien Lusseau (fabien-beosfrance)]

I can't wait for Spice to be in Ubuntu !

There is this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~serge-hallyn/+archive/spice2

If it could help.

[Fabien Lusseau (fabien-beosfrance)]

Sorry, this repository should be better for Oneiric users:

https://launchpad.net/~bderzhavets/+archive/spice-test

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Quoting Fabien Lusseau (<email address hidden>):
> Sorry, this repository should be better for Oneiric users:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~bderzhavets/+archive/spice-test

We can't take that approach for qemu-kvm, since the spice
libraries are in universe. This week I will sync the latest
qemu-kvm into precise, and then add the qemu-kvm-spice package
as per the debdiff already attached to this bug.

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

Is there a how-to to use this in Precise? virt-manager doesn't seem to be able to make use of it.

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

libvirt and virt-manager integration has not yet been addressed. Start spice-enabled kvm by hand using for example:

kvm-spice -vga qxl -spice 5930,disable-ticketing

and then connect with

spicec -h localhost -p 5930

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

Thanks Serge,
    That actually needed:

kvm-spice -vga qxl -spice port=5930,disable-ticketing

and for those who've just done that, it's shift-f12 to escape from the spicec window.

It works, but isn't stable; I guess it needs some separate bugs; I got a qxl X server crash in the (upto date precise 32bit) client (very repeatable), and I'm getting lots of drawing artifacts (see http://www.treblig.org/debug/badspice.png )

I guess the server crash should go with the X server - what about the drawing artifacts - do you want those against the X server or kvm-spice or spicec ?

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

Thanks, Dave - you're right of course about the proper command line, sorry about that.

I have no idea where the blame for the drawing artifacts will lie, so I would recommend filing against X first and then hitting 'also affects distribution' and choosing spice, and again for kvm-spice.

Note there is a newer version of spice as of this weekend, 0.10.0 - which should have a few bug fixes. Did you reproduce even with that?

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

Hi Serge,
  See bug 913311 and bug 913314 for the crasher and the corrupt display respectively.
(And yes it's 0.10.0 spicec).

Dave

[Eugene San (eugenesan)]

As of 06/03/2012 qemu-kvm (1.0+noroms-0ubuntu6) in Precise is built without spice support.

I've prepared patch that should fix above and add spice support.

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

@Eugene

Install the qemu-kvm-spice package, and run kvm-spice.

Spice is rejected for main, and therefore qemu-kvm in main cannot link against it.