[SOLVED] virt-manager graphical console issues with Slackware64 14.1
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virt-manager graphical console issues with Slackware64 14.1
With the issue being "it doesn't work".
The virtual machines come up just fine; I can ssh into them and do all sorts of things that way.
Installing a new one or attempting to use the graphical display is another story. The display freezes after a partial draw and there's no keyboard input allowed. I've used both SPICE and VNC to bring up the display and neither works.
I'm using the latest versions out of slackbuilds.org to build the infrastructure. I'm using sbopkg to build it all via a queue file that looks like...
I have the same problem, but I use tigervnc to connect. My virtual machines are on the same machine, so I can use the following code to connect to the first vm (display 0):
if the host you're connecting from is a -current machine, please try now with the updated cairo (or rebuild it on 14.1): since today it started to work again.
Thanks for this information. Just for future reference, updating cairo in 14.1 to the 'current' version fixes the same problem with the python bindings for gtk-vnc. I was having the same problem, the latest cairo fixed it.
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