On 12/14/2016 08:05 PM, Shirley Arava wrote:
Hi, I was looking for some sort of guidance as to where I was going wrong with the spice protocol requirements. We are currently trying to use SPICE-html5 client to provide remote access to Virtual Machines hosted on a Xen hypervisor. It would be really helpful if you could provide us some inputs since we are currently improving the virtual private cloud experience for hosting online labs at Tandon School of Engineering, NYU. On my test bed, I have deployed an ubuntu server(16.04 LTS) as a virtual machine on a xen hypervisor(also ubuntu 16.04 LTS server) and was able to connect remotely to the virtual machine using the spice html5 client(www.spice-space.org <http://www.spice-space.org/>). However I was unable to get the copy-paste functionality to work. According to a few of the documentations/blogs I have read, for the copy-paste functionality to work, spice protocol needs the qxl driver and spice-vdagent to be present on the both host and the guest machines. I have installed them on the xen server and the guests, but I was still not able to copy-paste. Can you help me figure out or point me to some good documentation to check if I have overlooked something to get SPICE-html5 client to run with the clipboard sharing.
Hi Shirley, For clipboard sharing to work you need on the guest: 1. virtio-serial driver (and matching device for the VM) 2. spice-vdagent service and agent (and matching port for the VM) (See Configuration in https://www.spice-space.org/spice-user-manual.html#agent) No need to install it on the host/server. No need to install it on the client machine. No need for QXL device. You do need a client that supports clipboard sharing. It seems that spice-html5 does not yet support it. In spice-html5 git repo, in TODO file, one can find: Explore clipboard - Supporting it may require unpleasant hacks Can you try using remote-viewer ? Regards, Uri. _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel