How to view VM's desktop in a single click from a shortcut on my desktop ?

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shodan

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Hi,

What is the standard way to have on my workstation's desktop

A shortcut which opens VM 1770's desktop in a window

No questions, no other actions, no open browsers anything else

I click that button, the VM's desktop is shown, every time without fail ?

What is the right way to do that ?

Preferably, I would like one shortcuts which opens in VNC, another which opens in my SPICE client (is there a windows SPICE client other than virt-viewer ?)
 
Well I could install sunshine and use moonlight client.
But I really would prefer to use proxmox's provided vnc or spice viewport, rather than install extra software on top of it all
 
_gabriel said:
xrdp require some settings depends of your Linux distro but out of the scope of PVE
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Really ? Depend on used linux the xrdp package is enabled or disabled after install so just to check by systemctl if it's running now and after a reboot.
Then it still works.
 
Ok, you mean installing software inside the VM to act as an rdp server.

But I'm looking for a way to use VNC/SPICE already present in proxmox, which will work independently of what is going on inside the VM and without having to install extra software in it (except maybe the guest additions)
 
I found these older thread from 10 years ago

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Thread 'noVNC coonect to guest VM without portal'

Hello!

Can anybody explain me - it's possible connect to guest VM using browser without access to admin portal (https://blah-blah.com:8006).
I mean that client (%username%) must be access to him VM using http, https://blah-blah.com:5901, where blah-blah.com is proxmox 3.3-2 server and port 5901 is already mapped for specific VM?

It's work but only using client, like tigervnc. But I need check possible novnc connect.

Thanks!
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Thread 'access noVNC html5 console from external site / vncwebsocket via api?'

Hi,

I have an (password protected, of course) external site which allows to access any VM console through the proxmox PVE-API by utilizing vncproxy command and loading the Java console applet.

I would like to update this site to the new noVNC html5 console as it is included in Proxmox 3.3.
Unfortunately http://pve.proxmox.com/pve2-api-doc/ does not list any documentation regarding the new vncwebsocket command yet.

Maybe someone has already done this and can provide an example how to access from noVNC to Proxmox vncwebsocket API command?

@proxmox team: Does the proxmox API specify...

These appear to be about what I'm asking.

So what I need is some kind of script, that makes the request to the proxmox API, for some kind of ticket, and then use that to connect a locally running vnc client to pveproxy.

I imagine it would be very similar for use with a SPICE client.

Does such a script currently exist ?
 
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I have discovered two scripts which try to automate to SPICE to VM connection procedure into something that only takes a few weekends to setup !

https://gitlab.com/pawlakm/pve-spice-connect

https://github.com/Corsinvest/cv4pve-pepper

https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-manager.git;a=blob_plain;f=spice-example-sh;hb=HEAD

Unfortunately, I'm on windows so I'll have to re-write them before I can use them, but it's a step in the right direction !

I found these in the following thread

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Thread 'Remote Spice access *without* using web manager'

Is it possible to access the Spice Console for a specific VM without going through the web manager?

We're interested in using proxmox as a windows desktop server and being able to settup a short cut that launched remote-viewer to directly open a vm console would be exceedingly useful.

Thanks.

and here is some more thread about SPICE related problems


So to recap, here are my SPICE problem

Mouse captured on focus and hard to release <-- biggest issue
Inaccurate mouse <---- severe issue, unusable
mouse movement "lumpy" or "sticky"
can't find spice vdagent binary for windows
Cannot one-click-connect
No audio
Slow frame rate
Clipboard exchange don't work
folder sharing don't work
SPICE usb passthrough not working
video stream might not be working
virt-viewer has no dark mode and pure white borders
virt-viewer does not respect windowmanager fancyzone & altsnap

Some more resources


https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/SPICE

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Thread 'PVE 5.4 spice disable-ticketing'

Hi,

I just installed version 5.4 in my lab and restored one Linux VM ( Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop ) to test.

I usually put "args" in VM conf file like this, to have direct access to spice :

args: -device AC97,addr=0x18 -spice port=3200,addr=0.0.0.0,disable-ticketing

I use Remmina to connect to the VM.

I noticed there is no bind to port 3200 in my case and there is no error message in LOGs.

Is there any change in version 5.4 in order to disable spice ticketing ?

Regards,

Ricardo Jorge
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[SOLVED] Thread 'Configuring Spice (Windows 10 guest, Debian host)'

Hello,

I recently installed a Debian VM, and I'd like to use Spice to obtain dual monitor view.

- On my Windows 10 machine (my guest), I installed VirtViewer.
- On my VM (Debian 9.5), I installed spice-vdagent, and xserver-xorg-video-qxl, I ran the cmd "systemctl enable spice-vdagentd", I stoped the VM, changed the settings of the VM and chose "SPICE dual monitor" in the Display line, and start again the VM.

Now I try to connect to the VM using VirtViewer (spice://192.168.1.178:5900) but I receive an error mentioning that the client didn't succeed to connect to the display server -...
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Thread 'connect to VMs via steamlink client or SPICE to avoid mouse lag'

Hello,

when a proxmox server is accessed remotely by a browser and noVNC is used to connect to say a Debian VM, how to replace noVNC by steamlink then? (edit)

Thank you.
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Thread 'Cursor Pointer Inaccurate with Spice When Aspect NOT 4:3'

Seems that the Y-Axis (up/down) becomes inaccurate in Spice console when aspect ratio for VM desktop is not 4:3.

Using Virt-Viewer on Windows 10 or Ubuntu to control VM has this issue. Easily reproduced on VM using Gnome with Debian 11 or Ubuntu 22.04 with the default sidebar. Make VM Desktop Settings something that is 16:9 or 16:10 (not 4:3) and begin moving the mouse up and down the sidebar/dock. Soon the mouse can be over or under an icon by almost 50% and still affecting (focused on) icons it is not hovering over.

Guest additions (qemu-guest-agent) are installed from...
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Thread 'Enable spice/qxl with video type none so that Looking Glass can use host spice server'

The Proxmox documentation references Looking Glass, software that enables high performance and low-latency display mirroring between host and guest, as a use case for what Inter-VM shared memory (ivshmem) could be used for (see "Inter-VM shared memory" https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu/KVM_Virtual_Machines )

Between the Proxmox and Looking Glass documentation many people (including myself) have gotten the display mirroring portion to work well from a Linux guest to Windows guest running on Proxmox. However, there appears to be no easily found documented cases in which individuals...
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Thread 'Is there a QEMU guest agent for macOS?'

I installed macOS in a VM on Proxmox 8.2.2, and I want to use copy/paste between my main computer and the VM. Is there a QEMU guest agent for macOS available?
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Post in thread 'Proxmox 5.3 --> spice port ignored!'

Thank's again for the hint but when I compare the output of two KVM machines wit the command you mentioned the different type of Display device is shown:
< -vnc unix:/var/run/qemu-server/130.vnc,x509,password \
---
> -vnc unix:/var/run/qemu-server/108.vnc,x509,password \
17c17
< -m 3072 \
---
> -m 4096 \
19d18
< -device 'pci-bridge,id=pci.2,chassis_nr=2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1f' \
20a20
> -device 'pci-bridge,id=pci.2,chassis_nr=2,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1f' \
22,23c22,24
< -device 'qxl-vga,id=vga,bus=pci.0,addr=0x2' \
< -chardev...
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Thread 'scripted spice access gives: 595 Invalid argument'

I´m using https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-manager.git;a=blob_plain;f=spice-example-sh;hb=HEAD as pve-virt-viewer_v2.sh
on
root@kvm01:~# pveversion
pve-manager/5.0-30/5ab26bc (running kernel: 4.10.17-2-pve)

but getting a 595 Invalid argument response.

root@schreibzugang-1:~# ./pve-virt-viewer_v2.sh -u 'spicer@pve' -p password 101 192.168.222.53
AUTH OK
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 595 Invalid argument

/var/log/syslog
Sep 21 00:28:02 kvm01 pvedaemon[28193]: <root@pam> successful auth for user 'spicer@pve'

/var/log/pveproxy/access.log
10.10.0.22 - -...
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Thread 'SPICE copy/paste and audio not working'

Hi, for some reason, I can't get SPICE copy/paste and audio working on my system. I have tried a bunch of results on Google, but none of them seem to work.

My setup is as follows:
  • Proxmox 7.3-3 host.
  • Debian 11 Bullseye 5.10.0-21-amd64 guest VM.
    • qemu-guest-agent installed.
    • spice-vdagent 0.20.0-2 installed.
  • Client machine is a Linux Mint 21.1 5.15.0-58-generic.
  • Client virt-viewer 7.0-2build2.
Other things I've tried to no avail.
  • I noticed that spice-vdagentd.socket isn't triggering spice-vdagentd.service to start, so I started spice-vdagentd manually...
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Thread 'SPICE doesn't change resolution anymore'

Hi,

My somewhat older Mint VM still works, but if I install a new Linux-VM and set the screen to spice, I got at least a screen but it doesn't resize the resolution anymore if I set the virt-viewer to fullscreen.
As I said my old Mint VM works with fullscreen but other guests not anymore.
What's the problem? How can I solve it? I updated virt-viewer to v7.0 but didn't change anything.

Edit: AND I can't set more than one screen anymore to the Linux-VMs. Except my old Mint VM, here it is still working..
It is not a problem of the client, since my notebook reveals the same problem...

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[SOLVED] Thread 'SPICE doesn't work'

A guest is Gentoo, which shows no apparent problems. The `spice-vdagent` is running (`qemu-agent` is running too and the host displays guest IP in the web interface)

The host is Proxmox VE 8.1 (pve-manager/8.1.10/4b06efb5db453f29)

According to the wiki page https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/SPICE I tried to troubleshoot using a script. The script prints "AUTH OK" (which corresponds to the first call to the curl) and then fails with an error where the second call to curl is made:

Code: 
curl -f -s -S -k -b "PVEAuthCookie=..." -H "CSRFPreventionToken:..."...
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Thread 'Spice dual monitor from Windows 7 guest'

All,

I'm running Proxmox VE 5.3, currently trying to get dual monitor from a Windows 7 guest. I'm running virt-viewer 8.0 from Windows 10 1803.

Here is my VM info:

agent: 1
bootdisk: scsi0
cores: 1
ide2: local:iso/virtio-win-0.1.164.iso,media=cdrom,size=367806K
memory: 8192
name: ADMIN-VM
net0: virtio=22:65:84:FB:5F:DF,bridge=vmbr0
numa: 0
ostype: win7
scsi0: Storage:vm-103-disk-0,format=raw,size=100G,ssd=1
scsihw: virtio-scsi-pci
smbios1: uuid=bad940a3-4dec-480f-bcb3-7a6401273f34
sockets: 4
vga: qxl2,memory=128
vmgenid: 77eff21a-14e0-4de8-a330-f61a2a439d42

I have installed the latest...
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Thread 'Spice issue'

I am switching from xrdp to spice for remote management of my Kali Linux(2022.1) VM. I am having an issue with dual monitor support in the Spice client. I am able to connect to the VM with two monitors, but I can't do anything with the second monitor. I can't drag apps to it I, can't right-click on it. When I try to drag apps it looks as if they are going behind the screen. I really don't know if this issue is Kali display, Proxmox, or Spice. Xrandr settings are below.

Virtual-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
Virtual-2 connected...
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Thread 'Spice Probleme'

Hallo zusammen,

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/disable-tls-for-spice-connections.139199/ dieser Post ist fast genau meine Frage.

Ich habe eine VM in der der spice agent läuft und nutze Remmina um die Verbindung via Spice herzustellen. Am Anfang hat das nicht funktioniert. Dann mal für einen Abend, und jetzt funktioniert es wieder nicht. Ich vermute TLS ist das Problem:

Code: 
device virtserialport,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.spice.0 -spice tls-port=61001,addr=127.0.0.1,tls-ciphers=HIGH,

Meine vm.conf

Code: 
agent: 1
audio0: device=AC97,driver=spice
boot: order=ide2;scsi0...
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Thread 'Spice problems'

Hello everyone,

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/disable-tls-for-spice-connections.139199/ this post is almost exactly my question.

I have a VM running the spice agent and I'm using Remmina to connect via Spice. At first, it didn’t work. Then it worked for one evening, and now it's not working again. I suspect TLS might be the issue:

Code: 
device virtserialport,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.spice.0 -spice tls-port=61001,addr=127.0.0.1,tls-ciphers=HIGH,

My vm.conf

Code: 
agent: 1

audio0: device=AC97,driver=spice

boot: order=ide2;scsi0

cores: 6

cpu: x86-64-v2-AES

ide2...
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[SOLVED] Thread 'virt-viewer 10.0.256 unable to hear sound from Windows 10 client to ProxMox Linux VM'

I'm running ProxMox on a Dell R720. I physically separated from the server and running the ProxMox interface on Chrome from a Windows 10 client. I have the spice Remote Viewer installed on this client. Additionally, on each of the linux installation, I have installed spice-vdagent and it is enabled and running.

I've seen many questions about using sound on a Linux VM via ProxMox. I understand the need to use Spice as a conduit for sound in this case. When I remote into any of the linux machines using Spice, the sound card shows up but no sound makes it back to the client machine.

I would...
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Thread 'Virt-Viewer not connecting when spice-vdagent is isntalled'

Hi,

SPICE is only working, when spice-vdagent is not installed. With spice-vdagent installed the Virt-Viewer can't connect and stops responding. Some distros automatically ship with spice-vdagent, so I have to remove it via the NoVNC Console to get SPICE working. I just enable SPICE via Hardware->Display->Graphic card->SPIC in my VMs. Is this normal behavior or am I missing some configuration.

Best Regards
 
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I have finally found where windows spice vdagent was hidden !

https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/vdagent/vdagent-win-0.10.0/

specifically I have installed

https://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/vdagent/vdagent-win-0.10.0/spice-vdagent-x64-0.10.0.msi

Here is the new status

!!! Mouse no longer captured !!!
Mouse is now accurate
Resize virtviewer window, change guest's resolution on the fly
clipboard <-> synchronization with host now works
audio works ->> add audio0: device=ich9-intel-hda,driver=spice

issues remaining, but at least it's usable now !


Cannot one-click-connect
Slow frame rate
folder sharing don't work
SPICE usb passthrough not working
virt-viewer has no dark mode and pure white borders
virt-viewer does not respect windowmanager fancyzone & altsnap
 
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