Hi Nahum,
This may be a bit of a strange problem, I've done some experimenting and I've found out that this only happens when the Desktop environment that the Spice Client is running on is KDE and the bottom panel on that desktop is set to autohide. So it's not really a problem with the Spice client, but a KDE problem. So it's KDE Host running a Virtual KDE desktop with the Spice Client, where the host KDE panel at the bottom is set to autohide.. Hope that makes sense.
Run the same thing with a GNOME 3 Desktop running the Spice client to a KDE4 virtual desktop and everything works fine. So it has something to do with the autohide property on the KDE desktop.
Sorry about the false alarm here.
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Nahum Shalman <nshalman@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Below I've pasted a stripped down version of a kickstart file I used to get Fedora 17 working as a spice VM.
(original is at http://www.shalman.org/spice/fedora17.ks)
It gave me a working KDE VM.
A plain install of Fedora 17 seemed to freeze for me, but I haven't done any digging into the differences between that plain install and the stuff in this kickstart file (modified from an older version for Fedora 16).
Kevin, perhaps you could give this kickstart file (or the full original) a try and see if that helps (the install will still prompt for a few details)?
As an aside, it might be interesting for there to be a yum group that installs all the right packages for a VM that uses spice so that someday one could run "yum groupinstall spicevm" or put "@spicevm" in a kickstart file and have everything "Just Work"...
-Nahum
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install
url --url="" href="http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora/releases/17/Fedora/x86_64/os/" target="_blank">http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora/releases/17/Fedora/x86_64/os/
reboot
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
network --onboot yes --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6
authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512
selinux --disabled
firewall --disabled
repo --name="Fedora 17" --baseurl=http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora/releases/17/Fedora/x86_64/os/
repo --name="Fedora 17 updates" --baseurl=http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora/updates/17/x86_64/
%packages
@Base
@Fonts
@Core
@online-docs
xorg-x11-drv-qxl
xorg-x11-drv-evdev
spice-vdagent
kdm
konsole
kde-settings-pulseaudio
kdemultimedia-kmix
kwin-gles
xorg-x11-xauth
xorg-x11-xinit
xorg-x11-utils
xorg-x11-server-Xorg
xorg-x11-server-utils
xorg-x11-fonts-*
xorg-x11-font-utils
firstboot
smolt-firstboot
less
vim
openssh-clients
openssh-server
pulseaudio
phonon-backend-gstreamer
libusb*
usbutils*
usbredir*
%end
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Kevin Daly
(416) 953-8330
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