SPICE for Proxmox VE (pvetest)

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We just uploaded new packages to enable the use of SPICE on Proxmox VE. I already love it and I use it every day!
In order to test it, you need to use the pvetest repository.

For more details, see:
http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/SPICE

A big Thank-you to our active community for all feedback, testing, bug reporting and patch submissions.
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Best regards,

Martin Maurer
Proxmox VE project leader
 
Would love to test but I have some problems:
a) seems you require a pretty new version of virt-viewer (I will have at home where I use Debian Sid, not at work where I use Kubuntu 12.04), is 0.4.2-1 "good enough" (maybe limited functionality) or works only with latest?
b) how do I run that client? virt-viewer seems to require "an hypervisor", and virt-viewer -c myproxmoxIP just does not work, and I've not idea about "DOMAIN-NAME|ID|UUID" option
c) does spice-client-gtk works as well? (if so, how to?)

Finally, there are a couple syntax errors in this commit:
https://git.proxmox.com/?p=qemu-ser...;hpb=eba883bee0dcf11bbbd75e37bfbb27e3c41d86d8
"positioning with VNC. Else " -> "positioning with VNC otherwise "
"This is turned of by" -> "This is turned off by"

Last but not least, thanks a lot for your great work!
 
I just updated my test system here to try out the Spice stuff, and I'm impressed! It's way better than VNC.
I have a few questions - you have to install the virt-viewer (well at least on Windows) and it seems that from the browser, a file is downloaded that must be passed to the viewer on the command line. Let's say I want to run the viewer on it's own - ie not from the web interface. When you start the viewer, it asks for a URL. What is the format of this URL?
 
I do the the updated

I have a lot of problems, pb with the local storage, sheepdog storage and ceph-cluster :) the total.

Itry to create a new vm, i have the message : pb with the storage...
I'll turn off all machines and I'll restart.
thank's
 
This is great news, thank you PVE team!

I don't know when I'll test/use this since I have no suitable test node, atm, but I can't wait to see where this enhancement will bring PVE (VDI use case ?) in the future, along with all the wonderful features...

Marco
 
If you click on the "spice" button, a file will be downloaded. Just configure your OS to (always( open this file with virt-viewer.

Very important, you need at least virt-viewer 0.5.6 - as outlined in the wiki, see http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/SPICE#SPICE_client - e.g. the already packaged version for Debian are too old.
 
I answer myself to question b) and c)
You don't have to run the spice client stand alone, once you enable spice in the client, Proxmox web interface shows a "spice" button near the "console" one. I was not yet able to make it work, but I'm sure I'm on the right track ;P
 
I use Windows XP 32bit
VM is Win2003(have not install windows guest tools )
 
ebiss said:
View attachment 1570

Spice client for windows seem not stable :(
Everything else is OK now. :D
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I'm running the viewer in virt-viewer-x64-0.5.6.msi and it works OK. I did look in the bin directory, and there is a windows-cmdline-wrapper.exe in there. If I run it on it's own, I get an error saying that it has asked the run time to terminate it. You can see where the error is in the command prompt that you see - it's in a string compare -
strncmp(name + len, "com",4) == 0

I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that you seem to be running a non-english version of Windows? Maybe there is a unicode character somewhere that the string compare is failing on? Just a thought.
 
I rebooted my server and everything works again.
The SPICE protocol does not work correctly with FIREFOX

Message : Impossible d'établir la connexion au serveur d'affichage /tmp/spiceproxy

While with chromium it works very well.

Thank's
 
badji said:
I rebooted my server and everything works again.
The SPICE protocol does not work correctly with FIREFOX

Message : Impossible d'établir la connexion au serveur d'affichage /tmp/spiceproxy

While with chromium it works very well.

Thank's
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Oh - that's odd, as I'm using Firefox ...
 
AndyL said:
I'm running the viewer in virt-viewer-x64-0.5.6.msi and it works OK. I did look in the bin directory, and there is a windows-cmdline-wrapper.exe in there. If I run it on it's own, I get an error saying that it has asked the run time to terminate it. You can see where the error is in the command prompt that you see - it's in a string compare -
strncmp(name + len, "com",4) == 0

I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that you seem to be running a non-english version of Windows? Maybe there is a unicode character somewhere that the string compare is failing on? Just a thought.
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Yes. I use Simplified Chinese version WinXP .
 
I have an error when I try to connect with another node.

Unable to connect to the graphic server C:\Users\Ivensiya\Downloads\spiceproxy.vv

when connect with the VM is on the same node, all is well

firefox/chrome
 
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I get: "Cannot find guest domain /var/tmp/spiceproxy"
Running Fedora-Live-Desktop-x86_64-19-1 & Firefox.
VM is Ubuntu 12.04.

edit: it's ok with windows client.

Great job and thanks!
 
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AndyL said:
Let's say I want to run the viewer on it's own - ie not from the web interface. When you start the viewer, it asks for a URL. What is the format of this URL?
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That is not implemented currently, so you cannot do that. Maybe I will implement that later.
 
mmenaz said:
Would love to test but I have some problems:
a) seems you require a pretty new version of virt-viewer (I will have at home where I use Debian Sid, not at work where I use Kubuntu 12.04), is 0.4.2-1 "good enough" (maybe limited functionality) or works only with latest?
b) how do I run that client? virt-viewer seems to require "an hypervisor", and virt-viewer -c myproxmoxIP just does not work, and I've not idea about "DOMAIN-NAME|ID|UUID" option
c) does spice-client-gtk works as well? (if so, how to?)

Finally, there are a couple syntax errors in this commit:
https://git.proxmox.com/?p=qemu-ser...;hpb=eba883bee0dcf11bbbd75e37bfbb27e3c41d86d8
"positioning with VNC. Else " -> "positioning with VNC otherwise "
"This is turned of by" -> "This is turned off by"

Last but not least, thanks a lot for your great work!
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You need virt-viewer 0.5.5 minimum to be able to use the spice proxy. (0.5.6 is better)
 
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