> > > I installed Alpine Linux 3.16 virtual machine edition on QEMU/KVM using > > > Virt-Manager. I installed XFCE on it. I wanted to enable copy-and-paste, > > > so I tried to install spice-vdagent on it, but it kept crashing. I > > > checked the output using the "-x" parameter, and basically, it crashed > > > due to the lack of /dev/uinput. The screenshot is at > > > https://i.imgur.com/9WKaVG8.png > > > > > > I do not know Linux much, so I am not sure if /dev/uinput is not present > > > due to the settings of the virtual machine or because I have not > > > installed something on Alpine Linux. I tried the standard edition of > > > Alpine, and right after the installation, /dev/uinput was not present. > > > > > > In case that Alpine Linux indeed does not support /dev/uinput, can't the > > > spice service run anyway? All I want is text copy-and-paste between the > > > host and the guest, and does that feature need /dev/uinput? > > > > Hi, > > try to add "-f -u /dev/null" to the parameters (that is > > "--fake-uinput --uinput-device /dev/null"). > > > > Frediano > > > In Alpine Linux, if I install the "spice-vdagent" package, there seem to be > two executables: spice-vdagentd and spice-vdagent. I ran spice-vdagentd with > "-x -d -d -f -u /dev/null" and this time, it did not crash. But as soon as I > ran "spice-vdagent -x -d", the virtual machine's mouse stopped working. With > the debug messages from spice-vdagentd, I knew that the daemon was receiving > the mouse pointer movements and button clicks, but somehow the XFCE desktop > did not get it, so I could not do things like clicking a window. Keyboard was > working, though. Also, probably copy-and-paste also would work, because in > the debug message from spice-vdagent, it seemed to have received the event, > when I copied some text on the host OS. How can I fix this mouse not moving > problem? > > Also, there is another problem. It seems that after running "spice-vdagentd > -x -f -u /dev/null", any subsequent execution of it fails with "Fatal could > not create the server socket /run/spice-vdagentd/spice-agent-sock: Error > binding to address (GUnixSocketAddress): No such file or directory. Rebooting > the guest OS did not solve the problem. Here is the screenshot: > https://i.imgur.com/pKtD8BH.png > > Luckily, I had created a snapshot right after installing Alpine Linux and > XFCE, so I can revert it and keep testing. If there is anything more I can > do, please let me know.
If there currently is no way to solve this problem, can't the agent be updated so that it would not crash when /dev/uinput is not present, and continue to do what it can do without /dev/uinput? I mean, all I want is copy-and-paste, and I am not sure why that cannot function without /dev/uinput.
