Thanks for the reply and the tip. Yes, I have found this link: http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/SPICE which mentions enabling the spice-vdagentd service and I've done this. The service is enabled and started but the problem remains (copy&paste sometimes works sometimes not). With: $ xrandr --output Virtual-0 --auto which for other OS I have tested works, Arch freezes. All this with the latest kernel. At some point I tried to boot with the LTS kernel. Again the same but this time the xrandr command works. The screen resizes normally and I can copy&paste. Using the LTS kernel instead of the latest kernel and issuing everytime the xrandr command is not a really a issue to me. What bothers me is that the CPU is at 100% mainly because of the plasmashell and xorg. When I don't run xrandr CPU is around 4%. Here are some errors I havefound from journalctl: Oct 11 22:11:33 arch-sd pulseaudio[464]: XIO: fatal IO error 1 (Operation not permitted) on X server ":0" Oct 11 22:11:33 arch-sd kdeinit5[423]: The X11 connection broke: I/O error (code 1) Oct 11 22:14:59 arch-sd ksmserver[436]: Qt: Session management error: networkIdsList argument is NULL Oct 11 22:15:00 arch-sd kdeinit5[417]: org.kde.kcm_keyboard: Failed to open layout memory xml file for reading "/home/nick/.local/share/kded5/keyboard/session/layout_memory.xml" error: 5 Oct 11 22:34:32 arch-sd pulseaudio[474]: XIO: fatal IO error 1 (Operation not permitted) on X server ":0" Oct 11 22:34:32 arch-sd NetworkManager[241]: <warn> [1507754072.1687] error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.protected: Authorization check failed: Refusing activation, D-Bus is shutting down. Oct 11 22:34:32 arch-sd NetworkManager[241]: <warn> [1507754072.1688] error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.open: Authorization check failed: Refusing activation, D-Bus is shutting down. Oct 11 22:34:32 arch-sd kdeinit5[417]: The X11 connection broke: I/O error (code 1) Oct 11 22:34:32 arch-sd kernel: traps: ksmserver[436] general protection ip:7f17d0646e98 sp:7ffe3c48d6d0 error:0 in libQt5Core.so.5.9.2[7f17d04b2000+4e2000] Oct 11 22:34:47 arch-sd ksmserver[448]: Qt: Session management error: networkIdsList argument is NULL Oct 11 22:34:47 arch-sd kdeinit5[420]: org.kde.kcm_keyboard: Failed to open layout memory xml file for reading "/home/nick/.local/share/kded5/keyboard/session/layout_memory.xml" error: 5 Oct 11 23:07:51 arch-sd kwin_x11[473]: The X11 connection broke: I/O error (code 1) Oct 11 23:07:51 arch-sd pulseaudio[485]: XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0" Oct 11 23:07:51 arch-sd sddm[283]: Authentication error: "Process crashed" Oct 11 23:07:51 arch-sd sddm[283]: Authentication error: "Process crashed" Oct 11 23:07:51 arch-sd kdeinit5[420]: The X11 connection broke: I/O error (code 1) Oct 11 23:07:51 arch-sd NetworkManager[255]: <warn> [1507756071.1663] error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.protected: Authorization check failed: Refusing activation, D-Bus is shutting down. Oct 11 23:07:51 arch-sd NetworkManager[255]: <warn> [1507756071.1666] error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.open: Authorization check failed: Refusing activation, D-Bus is shutting down. Oct 11 23:12:48 arch-sd ksmserver[650]: Qt: Session management error: networkIdsList argument is NULL Oct 11 23:12:48 arch-sd kdeinit5[626]: org.kde.kcm_keyboard: Failed to open layout memory xml file for reading "/home/nick/.local/share/kded5/keyboard/session/layout_memory.xml" error: 5 Oct 11 23:34:11 arch-sd sddm[478]: Authentication error: "Process crashed" Oct 11 23:34:11 arch-sd sddm[478]: Authentication error: "Process crashed" Oct 11 23:34:11 arch-sd baloorunner[788]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die? Oct 11 23:34:11 arch-sd kdeinit5[626]: The X11 connection broke: I/O error (code 1) Oct 11 23:34:11 arch-sd kglobalaccel5[643]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die? Oct 11 23:34:32 arch-sd ksmserver[439]: Qt: Session management error: networkIdsList argument is NULL Oct 11 23:34:32 arch-sd kdeinit5[421]: org.kde.kcm_keyboard: Failed to open layout memory xml file for reading "/home/nick/.local/share/kded5/keyboard/session/layout_memory.xml" error: 5 Oct 11 23:38:36 arch-sd pulseaudio[486]: XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0" Oct 11 23:38:36 arch-sd kdeinit5[421]: The X11 connection broke: I/O error (code 1) Oct 11 23:38:36 arch-sd kwin_x11[476]: The X11 connection broke: I/O error (code 1) Oct 11 23:38:36 arch-sd kernel: traps: ksmserver[439] general protection ip:7fcc7c83972c sp:7ffdd4593e70 error:0 in libQt5Core.so.5.9.2[7fcc7c56d000+4e2000] Oct 11 23:38:36 arch-sd NetworkManager[276]: <warn> [1507757916.1518] error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.protected: Authorization check failed: Refusing activation, D-Bus is shutting down. Oct 11 23:38:36 arch-sd NetworkManager[276]: <warn> [1507757916.1518] error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.open: Authorization check failed: Refusing activation, D-Bus is shutting down. Oct 11 23:39:38 arch-sd ksmserver[645]: Qt: Session management error: networkIdsList argument is NULL Oct 11 23:39:38 arch-sd kdeinit5[625]: org.kde.kcm_keyboard: Failed to open layout memory xml file for reading "/home/nick/.local/share/kded5/keyboard/session/layout_memory.xml" error: 5 Oct 11 23:46:27 arch-sd kactivitymanagerd[724]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die? Oct 11 23:46:27 arch-sd kdeinit5[625]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die? Oct 11 23:46:27 arch-sd NetworkManager[457]: <warn> [1507758387.2581] error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.protected: Authorization check failed: Refusing activation, D-Bus is shutting down. Oct 11 23:46:27 arch-sd NetworkManager[457]: <warn> [1507758387.2590] error requesting auth for org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wifi.share.open: Authorization check failed: Refusing activation, D-Bus is shutting down. Oct 12 00:00:19 arch-sd ksmserver[10680]: Qt: Session management error: networkIdsList argument is NULL Oct 12 00:00:21 arch-sd kdeinit5[10261]: org.kde.kcm_keyboard: Failed to open layout memory xml file for reading "/home/nick/.local/share/kded5/keyboard/session/layout_memory.xml" error: 5 Oct 12 00:10:43 arch-sd kwin_x11[11089]: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 18361, resource id: 41943083, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0 What can I do? Regards, Nick On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini <grazzolini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Em outubro 11, 2017 12:28 Nick Gilmour via arch-general escreveu: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I've just installed the latest Arch with KDE as a VM with QEMU/KVM in >> Virtual Media Manager. Everything seems to be working fine except >> spice, so the resolution and copy/paste do not work. The spice-vdagent >> and xf86-video-qxl are installed. There is not something wrong with my >> host configuration since I have already two other 2 VMs which work >> fine with spice. One with Fedora 26, which worked out of the box and >> one with Ubuntu 16.04.3 for which I had only to install spice-vdagent >> and now it also works fine. >> > > Well, it's hard to what your issue might be, given that you didn't provide > any error or logs. Having said that, you need to install *and* start the > spice-vdagentd service. Contrary to fedora and ubuntu, arch does not enable > nor start anything for you. > > Regards, > Giancarlo Razzolini
