Opened 3 months ago
Closed 3 months ago
#74206 closed defect (fixed)
virt-viewer: unable to connect to remote guests through SPICE protocol
| Reported by: | jasonliu-- (Jason Liu) | Owned by: | drkp (Dan Ports) |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | 2.12.5 |
| Keywords: | sequoia | Cc: | |
| Port: | virt-viewer |
Description
When attempting to connect to a remote VM guest that lives on a separate virtualization host machine, virt-viewer gives this error message:
Failed to connect: Unsupported graphic type 'spice'
Even though the spice-gtk port is listed as a dependency of the virt-viewer port, it seems that recent builds of the virt-viewer port may not be getting compiled with SPICE protocol support enabled.
This issue appeared when I upgraded my machine from macOS 13 Ventura to macOS 15 Sequoia, around six months ago. virt-viewer was working fine under Ventura; but after completely removing MacPorts, upgrading to Sequoia, and then re-installing MacPorts from scratch, I started getting the error message shown above. So I don't know whether the issue is with the virt-viewer port on Sequoia specifically, or whether the problem lies with the virt-viewer port itself and it was just a coincidence that the port stopped working at the same time that I happened to upgrade macOS.
I can say with certainty that the issue is not with my virtualization host or the VMs living on that host. If I spin up a Debian VM using VirtualBox, I am able to use virt-manager from inside the Debian VM to connect to the VMs living on the virtualization host without any problems.
One other piece of information: I am using the virt-viewer command from the command line to initiate my remote connections, e.g.:
virt-viewer --direct --connect qemu+ssh://username@hostname/session vmname
Change History (2)
comment:1 Changed 3 months ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)
| Owner: | set to drkp |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
comment:2 Changed 3 months ago by drkp (Dan Ports)
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
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