Thanks for your reply Christophe. I can confirm that it's a host issue and not related to the remote client. I've since upgraded to vdagent 0.17.0 and xspice 0.1.5-3 compiled locally from: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-xorg/driver/xserver-xorg-video-qxl.git Now, I am able to run Xspice successfully with vdagent, but _only_ when sitting directly in front of the machine! When running Xspice locally I see the following output: spice_vdagentd: opening vdagent virtio channel I am then able to start up any spice client on the same machine or any remote machine and have all vdagent features enabled. However, if I start Xspice from a SSH session as the same user, with exactly the same arguments, even on the same machine, the line I wrote above from spice_vdagentd is missing, and vdagent features are disabled. The only difference I can discern is the following line in xorg.log (may or may not be relevant): Local: [ 11345.054] (II) config/udev: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0) [ 11345.054] (II) systemd-logind: got fd for /dev/dri/card0 226:0 fd 18 paused 1 [ 11345.054] (EE) Error systemd-logind returned paused fd for drm node [ 11345.054] (II) systemd-logind: releasing fd for 226:0 SSH: [ 16438.417] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0) [ 16438.418] (EE) systemd-logind: failed to take device /dev/dri/card0: Operation not permitted [ 16438.418] (EE) /dev/dri/card0: failed to set DRM interface version 1.4: Permission denied Otherwise the logs are identical. Invoking Xspice from the SSH session still creates vdagent subprocesses, all the pipes and sockets are in the right place, etc. Thank you, J On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 11:55:48PM +0200, Jordan Sokolic wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I've recently begun using Xspice as a remote desktop solution. I'm >> finding its performance to be greatly superior to VNC, RDP or others. >> Nice! >> I wrote a small wrapper script that launches Xspice on a remote >> machine with the following arguments: >> >> Xspice --auto --disable-ticketing --deferred-fps 30 >> --audio-fifo-dir $AUDIO_FIFO_DIR --xsession startxfce4 :1 >> >> All works well, however I am unable to get vdagent working for >> clipboard redirection. What happens instead is no cursor appears in >> the remote session, and mouse input is ignored. Only keyboard input >> still works. >> When I add the --vdagent argument, I see that two additional >> subprocesses are started: >> >> $ ps -ef | grep Xspice >> >> jordan 17426 17404 0 22:52 pts/2 00:00:00 >> /usr/sbin/spice-vdagentd -f -x -S /tmp/xspice-vdagent -s >> /tmp/xspice-virtio -u /tmp/xspice-uinput >> jordan 17436 17404 0 22:52 pts/2 00:00:00 /usr/bin/spice-vdagent >> -x -s /tmp/xspice-virtio -S /tmp/xspice-vdagent >> >> confirmation that the agent pipes and sockets are created successfully: >> $ ls -la /tmp | grep xspice- >> >> prw-r--r-- 1 jordan jordan 0 Feb 4 23:43 xspice-uinput >> srw-rw-rw- 1 jordan jordan 0 Feb 4 23:43 xspice-vdagent >> srwxr-xr-x 1 jordan jordan 0 Feb 4 23:43 xspice-virtio >> >> I tried running with '--xsession xterm' and got the same results, so >> it appears unrelated to XFCE or any of my startup applications. >> >> (possibly) relevant details: >> >> * remote machine: Ubuntu 16.04 amd64 >> * spice-vdagent 0.17.0-1 >> * xserver-xspice 0.1.4-3ubuntu3 >> * local machine: Xubuntu 16.04 amd64 >> * virt-viewer 1.0-1 >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Hey, not really a huge help, but with a remote/local f25, I do not have > mouse issues using the same command-line as you did and --xsession > xterm. Maybe you can try to boot from a fedora 25 live cd (and install > virt-viewer if needed) to check whether that's a client-side or remote > issue? virt-viewer 1.0 is 2.5 years old at this point. > > Christophe _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel