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Spice doesn't work from Virtual Machine Manager
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2016 10:02 am
by dobriain
Hi,
I installed KVM and built two VM's on my Linux Mint Rosa. When I try open a VM domain from the Virtual Machine Manager I get the following error message.
Error connecting to graphical console. Error opening Spice console, SpiceClientGtk missing.
The VM settings in the manager relating to graphics are:
Display:
Spice
Video:
qxl
I can access the VM from the following command OK:
Here is the spice stuff that is installed.
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$ dpkg -l | grep spice
ii libspice-client-glib-2.0-8:amd64 0.30-1 amd64 GObject for communicating with Spice servers (runtime library)
ii libspice-client-gtk-2.0-4:amd64 0.30-1 amd64 GTK2 widget for SPICE clients (runtime library)
ii libspice-client-gtk-3.0-4:amd64 0.30-1 amd64 GTK3 widget for SPICE clients (runtime library)
ii libspice-server1:amd64 0.12.6-4ubuntu0.1 amd64 Implements the server side of the SPICE protocol
ii python-spice-client-gtk 0.30-1 amd64 GTK2 widget for SPICE clients (Python binding)
ii spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper 0.30-1 amd64 Helper tool to validate usb ACLs
I have tried installing the
spice-vdagent on the VMs but that makes no difference.
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UbuntuVM~$ sudo apt-get install spice-vdagent
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UbuntuVM~$ systemctl | grep spice
spice-vdagentd.service loaded active running Agent daemon for Spice guests
Re: Spice doesn't work from Virtual Machine Manager
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 5:56 pm
by M1cha3lK
I'm having exactly the same problem.
The strange thing is that it works in Xubuntu and Peppermint (my other machines) which are all based on the same Ubuntu LTS version as Linux Mint 18 Sarah?
Re: Spice doesn't work from Virtual Machine Manager
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2016 6:15 am
by gdi2k
I've got exactly the same issue, also on Mint 18 (Sarah).
I've found this post with people having the same issue:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comm ... rking_was/
The solution there was "I just took an update for virt-manager and now everything is working" - but I have no idea what that really means. I tried the removed PPA to install virt-manager 1.4.0 (up from version 1.3.2 bundled with Sarah) but it made no difference.
Was anyone able to find a solution to this?
Re: Spice doesn't work from Virtual Machine Manager
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2016 4:24 pm
by mverkerk
Aditionally install:
gir1.2-spice-client-gtk-3.0
Re: Spice doesn't work from Virtual Machine Manager
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2016 3:34 am
by princefarhaan
Installing the above fixed the issue for me on mint 18 mate 64 bit. Thanks mverkerk.
Re: Spice doesn't work from Virtual Machine Manager
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 1:38 pm
by schlameel
Worked for me as well on 18.1 Serena Cinnamon. Thanks.
Re: Spice doesn't work from Virtual Machine Manager
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2017 6:35 am
by fatuus
just to say this worked fine on my 18.1 Serena as well
Re: Spice doesn't work from Virtual Machine Manager
Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2017 5:04 pm
by DareDevil73
It worked for me too, thank you!
Re: Spice doesn't work from Virtual Machine Manager
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2017 9:52 am
by g43xh
Nice ! Worked for me too
Re: Spice doesn't work from Virtual Machine Manager
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2018 6:42 am
by BrownBear
There is no gir1.2-spice-client-gtk-3.0 in Ubuntu 18.04/Mint 19 because it was renamed.
sudo apt install gir1.2-spiceclientgtk-3.0
Re: Spice doesn't work from Virtual Machine Manager
Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2020 6:49 am
by eugenevdmhost
I concur on later version of Mint (e.g. Linux Mint 20 Ulyana)
> There is no gir1.2-spice-client-gtk-3.0 in Ubuntu 18.04/Mint 19 because it was renamed.
you need this:
> sudo apt install gir1.2-spiceclientgtk-3.0
Re: Spice doesn't work from Virtual Machine Manager
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2021 11:27 am
by linxmintq
In Linux Mint 20.1 , no this python-spice-client-gtk present , which allows guest display.
Re: Spice doesn't work from Virtual Machine Manager
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2021 12:14 pm
by Moem
Mod note:
Let's stop digging up this long buried corpse of a thread. If there is anything new to say about the subject, please start a new topic, as always. Cheers!