Hi, On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 8:40 PM Frediano Ziglio <fredd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > > I agree with Frediano that (with a recent QXL device) the arbitrary resolution update is done via QXL. Note that it does not work for all Desktop Environments, and I apparently it doesn't work for AntiX Linux (default DE). If you can, try to run with GNOME/X11 and see if that works. Related bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1290586 Regards, Uri. > 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 > >
