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SPICE provides fast remote desktop connections to guests of implementing hypervisors, e.g. QEMU and KVM.

Quoting the project site:

The Spice project aims to provide a complete open source solution for interaction with virtualized desktop devices.The Spice project deals with both the virtualized devices and the front-end. Interaction between front-end and back-end is done using VD-Interfaces. The VD-Interfaces (VDI) enable both ends of the solution to be easily utilized by a third-party component.

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How to create KVM guest with SPICE graphics but TLS disabled using virt-install?

I am using virt-install (see below) to create a guest. All seems fine up to the point where it complains about auto-allocation of the SPICE TLS port. Here's what I am running and the full output: # sudo virt-install --name vmname --ram 1024…
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What is the difference between xspice and x11spice?

Recently I've been trying to enable spice in container using Docker for remote display, I've discovered two applicable resources to do so. First one is the xspice, if I should call it so, which contained in xserver-xspice package. Second one is…
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prevent Qemu / Spice from grabbing keys that are bound elsewhere

My setup: Qemu with Spice display managed by libvirt running on Linux with X11. I’m looking for a way to preserve key bindings in the window manager and the X server when a Qemu client is focused. A libvirt or Qemu option, a compile flag, or some…
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virt-manager copy and paste,is possible to disable it?

I use virtual machines with virt-manager and kvm-qemu. Simple question: on VirtualBox I can enable the addon for auto-resize of screen,and I like it. I also disable copy and paste because I want separate clipboards with guest and host. How to…
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KVM clipboard sharing with client running Wayland

I have Fedora 35 installed as a VM, with Qemu/KVM as the hypervisor and virt-manager as the graphical front-end, running under Manjaro KDE. Following numerous guides & answers I have managed to get clipboard sharing to work between the host and…
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When using Spice and remote-viewer with multiple virtual monitors, stuck on "Waiting for display 2" indefinately

Following some research, I learned that the proper method to setup multiple virtual monitors with virt-manager, libvirtd, and qemu is to use spice (link, link, link). At first, I added three total Video QXL instances, and then connected to Spice via…
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virt-manager, qemu-kvm, spice & vdagent: auto resizing and file sharing not working

Host: Ubuntu 18.04 Guest: Fedora 33 virt-manager 1.5.1 I built the guest using virt-manager. The guest works: internet access works, youtube in browser works, sound works, clipboard sharing between guest and host works. Problem summary: However auto…
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How to set arbitrary video mode in QEMU and QXL/Spice with Windows 7 guest?

I have a libvirt/KVM with QEMU running a Windows 7 guest using the Spice/QXL video emulator. How do I set a graphics mode not listed by default in the Windows screen resolution settings? For example, a mode like 2048x900 would be nice. The guest…
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KVM - How to remove virtual video card, but keep the SPICE Server?

I am passing through a physical GPU to my virtual machine, and using the SPICE Server/Display Spice for sound. However, the virtual GPU (Cirrus/QXL/VGA/Virtio/VMVGA/Xen) is causing some sort of conflict with the real GPU, as when it is enabled, the…
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Make shared clipboard work for qemu

The shared clipboard doesn't work for me. How to fix it? Host (Debian buster) with: standard system utilities ufw (ufw enabled, deny incoming, allow out going, deny routed) apparmor-profiles, apparmor-profiles-extra stterm xserver-xorg-core,…
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Part of virtual machine's screen is not visible when resolution changes with SPICE

A virtual machine with Windows 10 as the guest's OS is set up using KVM/QEMU. Without SPICE, it worked perfectly fine but for clipboard sharing, I followed Arch Linux's Guide. But then it's super annoying since everytime virt-viewer's window size…
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Spice Server Codec problem

I compiled(make) spice server source with option '--enable-gstreamer=0.10.36'. But As a result of debugging, I've found that 'default_video_codecs' still shows 'spice: mjpeg'. I want to know what action is needed to get it set to 'gstreamer: h264'.
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Unable to locate package spice-vdagent in debian

I am running a live debian as a guest OS in VMM. $ sudo apt install spice-vdagent ... E: unable to locate package spice-vdagent Do I need to add some repository first? The repository configuration contains: user@debian:~$ cat…
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16:9 aspect ratio on Windows KVM guest (specifically 1366x768)

I have a debian machine which I installed proxmox onto. I have been having trouble getting one of my guest machines (specifically a windows guest) to achieve a resolution of 1366x768. The solution in this post didn't work for me.
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Spice support disabled in qemu

I'm pretty knew to virtualization and linux in general and I'm having issues getting spice to work with qemu. I'm trying to install a windows 10 machine using virt-manager on Arch, and the installation refuses to work. Whenever I try to install the…
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