The Spice server doesn't like to be started or stopped twice . It aborts with:
(process:6191): Spice-ERROR **: 19:29:35.912: red-worker.c:623:handle_dev_start: assertion `!worker->running' failed It's easy to avoid that situation since qemu spice_display_is_running tracks the server state. After the commit "spice: do not stop spice if VM is paused", it will be possible to pause and resume the VM, and this will call qemu_spice_display_start() twice. The easiest is to add a check for spice_display_is_running with this patch to avoid the assert. Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com> --- ui/spice-core.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/ui/spice-core.c b/ui/spice-core.c index fc850b3f50..1f1501de78 100644 --- a/ui/spice-core.c +++ b/ui/spice-core.c @@ -922,12 +922,20 @@ int qemu_spice_display_add_client(int csock, int skipauth, int tls) void qemu_spice_display_start(void) { + if (spice_display_is_running) { + return; + } + spice_display_is_running = true; spice_server_vm_start(spice_server); } void qemu_spice_display_stop(void) { + if (!spice_display_is_running) { + return; + } + spice_server_vm_stop(spice_server); spice_display_is_running = false; } -- 2.20.1.2.gb21ebb671b