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Re: qemu/kvm spice console problem

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On 2017-12-28 04:01 PM, Celejar wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 23:14:31 -0500
> Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> wrote:
>
>> When I try to start a virtual machine, I get the error:
>>
>> Error connecting to graphical console:
>> Error opening Spice console, SpiceClientGtk missing
>>
>> on whichever VM I try to start.
>>
>> The Virtual Machine Manager shows the VM is running but I can't connect.
>> The system running the VMs is Debian/Stretch while my workstation is
>> Debian/Buster. This worked until fairly recently (I don't start up the
>> VMs too often, but I'm sure I did sometime in the last month). So far as
>> I can tell, spice is running on both the host and client machines.
>>
>> Any ideas on what's changed to cause this problem?
> No, but I do remember that when I installed virt* packages, it took a
> fair bit of sleuthing / trial and error to figure out which spice
> packages needed to be installed to get the graphical console to work.
> Here's what I currently have:
>
> $ apt list --installed '*spice*'
> Listing... Done
> gir1.2-spice-client-glib-2.0/stable,now 0.33-3.3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
> gir1.2-spice-client-gtk-3.0/stable,now 0.33-3.3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
> libspice-client-glib-2.0-8/stable,now 0.33-3.3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
> libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5/stable,now 0.33-3.3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
> libspice-server1/stable,stable,now 0.12.8-2.1+deb9u1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
> spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper/stable,now 0.33-3.3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
>
> Celejar
>
apt list --installed '*spice*'
Listing... Done
gir1.2-spiceclientglib-2.0/testing,now 0.34-1.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libspice-client-glib-2.0-8/testing,now 0.34-1.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5/testing,now 0.34-1.1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libspice-server1/testing,now 0.14.0-1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper/testing,now 0.34-1.1 amd64 
[installed,automatic]
spice-client-gtk/testing,now 0.34-1.1 amd64 [installed]

The missing package seems to be gir1.2-spice-client-gtk-3.0. Thanks!

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qemu/kvm spice console problem Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2017-12-28 06:00 +0100
  Re: qemu/kvm spice console problem john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2017-12-28 08:00 +0100
    Re: qemu/kvm spice console problem Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2017-12-29 05:30 +0100
  Re: qemu/kvm spice console problem Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-12-28 22:10 +0100
    Re: qemu/kvm spice console problem Zoltán Herman <zoltanhbz@gmail.com> - 2017-12-28 22:30 +0100
      Re: qemu/kvm spice console problem Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2017-12-29 01:10 +0100
    Re: qemu/kvm spice console problem Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> - 2017-12-29 05:40 +0100

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