On 26/01/2025 12:31, George at Clug wrote:
Today I changed my KDE host and guest VM to both use X11 and not Wayland.
[...]
Cut/Paste clip board between host and guest did not work, in either
direction. Very disappointing.
We are going to hijack Rafał's Wayland topic for the *X11* case. Debian
12 bookworm KDE (the guest is not updated though). I do not remember if
I had any issues for this pair, works in both directions for CLIPBOARD
and PRIMARY_SELECTION. Both systems are specific to some degree: Klipper
is disabled, plasma installed with --no-install-recommends.
remote-viewer as a SPICE client. qemu:
-device virtio-serial-pci
-device virtserialport,chardev=spicechannel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0
-chardev spicevmc,id=spicechannel0,name=vdagent
-display spice-app,gl=on -vga qxl
I have no idea what is wrong in your case. See the cited text at the bottom.
XFCE supports Cut/Paste clip board between host and guest.
I should give Cinnamon a try when I get the chance.
I had various issues for different live images, but I do not remember
details. Sometimes clipboard did not work, sometimes it was resize issues.
I am hoping that in the longer term future, spice-vdagent will still
be supported as I know no other way to get sound and video working to a
network isolated VM.
Do you have any reason for your hope? I have read that SPICE is not
supported in RHEL 9. That is why I would check what is recommended for
RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu. RedHat and Canonical certainly have customers who
need access to VM desktops. However I am not sure if only SPICE viewers
are deprecated or it includes spice-vdagent as well.
On Sunday, 26-01-2025 at 14:47 Max Nikulin wrote:
the blog post still gives
some hints:
- check that /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0 is created inside the VM,
- check that system spice-vdagentd service is able to start and to run
without errors,
- check the same for spice-vdagent service in user session.
