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...
How do I specify an output directory for the agent to file transfer? 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. 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 >