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virt-manager graphical console issues with Slackware64 14.1

With the issue being "it doesn't work". :cry:

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...

Code:

device-tree-compiler

usbredir

spice-protocol

libcacard

pyparsing

celt051

spice

qemu

vte3

vala

spice-gtk

gtk-vnc

pygobject3

urlgrabber

ipaddr-py

tunctl

gnome-python2-gconf

libdaemon

avahi

libcap-ng

libssh2

yajl

libvirt

libvirt-python

libvirt-glib

virt-manager

...and I'm at my wit's end (which isn't a long journey). It all worked fine with the versions used in 14.0.

yes, it's a general problem, but you should be able to connect to the vms via spicec/vncviewer.

Just so you know, spice-gtk-0.22 doesn't fix the problem either.

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):

Code:

vncviewer 127.0.0.1:0

spicec works OK, other than the lack of scrollbars on the resulting window. I was rather spoiled by virt-manager's built-in graphical console.

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. :)

I just built the cairo-1.12.16-x86_64-1 package on 14.1, upgraded to it, and the virt-manager graphical console is working again.

Thanks for giving me the heads up, ponce! (I'm marking the thread as [SOLVED].)

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. :D