Il giorno mar 18 ott 2022 alle ore 01:04 Carlos González <piteccel...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > > Were you able to find something by chance? Thanks. >
Hi Carlos, my main curiosity was about the need of the agent for resize. I did some tests and with both Windows and Linux it appears that the agent is needed. At this point I would try looking at the agent logs. Is your system using Xorg or Wayland ? Regards, Frediano > El sáb, 15 oct 2022 a las 9:22, Frediano Ziglio (<fredd...@gmail.com>) > escribió: >> >> Il giorno ven 14 ott 2022 alle ore 16:11 Carlos González >> <piteccel...@gmail.com> ha scritto: >> > >> > As soon as spice-vdagent package is installed, so is the spice-vdagentd >> > daemon and it also starts running. Yet I always need to manually run >> > spice-vdagent command... >> > >> >> Maybe you would need to logout and login again from the graphic >> session. Or manually start it, not sure. >> >> > How do I specify an output directory for the agent to file transfer? >> > >> >> See "spice-vdagent --help", specifically -f and -o options. >> >> > I don't think it's remote-viewer's fault, because I also tested with a >> > Windows guest. With all SPICE stuff properly installed, everything works >> > out of the box: clipboard, resizing, file transfer from host to guest. >> > With "properly installed" I mean: installed SPICE drivers manually from >> > virtio-win ISO by loading them since the Windows installation beforehand, >> > then once booted into Windows downloaded the vdagent ZIP from spice-space >> > website and manually installed the service according to instructions. >> > >> >> I'll check, maybe is not handled by driver but agent >> >> > As additional detail, in QEMU I use the option "-display spice-app", which >> > automatically starts remote-viewer; though curiously it doesn't seem to >> > create a virt-viewer directory inside ~/.config unlike when running >> > remote-viewer manually... >> > >> > Thanks again. >> > >> > El vie, 14 oct 2022 a las 12:41, Frediano Ziglio (<fredd...@gmail.com>) >> > escribió: >> >> >> >> Il giorno gio 13 ott 2022 alle ore 16:58 Carlos González >> >> <piteccel...@gmail.com> ha scritto: >> >> > >> >> > Hello. >> >> > >> >> > I'm trying a virtual machine with a live CD distribution called AntiX >> >> > Linux, which is directly based on Debian. >> >> > >> >> > I'm using direct QEMU commands. >> >> > In the VM configuration I have this for SPICE configuration: >> >> > "-vga qxl -device virtio-serial-pci -spice >> >> > unix=on,addr=path/to/vm_spice.socket,disable-ticketing=on -chardev >> >> > spicevmc,id=spicechannel0,name=vdagent -device >> >> > virtserialport,chardev=spicechannel0,name=com.redhat.spice.0 \" >> >> > Then I boot the live ISO, double check that QXL driver is installed >> >> > -which normally always is-, and install spice-vdagent package (version >> >> > 20 here). I'm using remote-viewer (virt-viewer) to visualize the VM. >> >> > >> >> > Up to this point, clipboard sharing with host still doesn't work, and >> >> > trying to drag a file from host to guest results in an error "The agent >> >> > is not connected". >> >> > >> >> >> >> This error is normal if the agent is stopped. >> >> >> >> > So I manually run "spice-vdagent" command, and clipboard sharing now >> >> > works, but trying to drag file from host to guest gives "File transfer >> >> > is disabled". Also, automatic resolution change with window resizing >> >> > doesn't work either. >> >> > >> >> >> >> The fact that in this way the clipboard is running indicates that the >> >> agent is now working. You need to specify an output directory to the >> >> agent in order to get file transfer working. >> >> About the resolution change that's weird, I think that feature on >> >> Linux does not even require the agent running. Is it possible that the >> >> client (remove-viewer) is not set up to send resize to the guest >> >> automatically, there are some options on the menu. >> >> >> >> > Certainly, this live distro doesn't come with any spice-related >> >> > packages installed by default, except for the QXL package. >> >> > >> >> > Am I missing something here? Could someone help please? >> >> > Thanks beforehand. >> >> >> >> Frediano
