SPICE client in Linux Mint-Unknown graphics type

[wahmed]

I am trying to use SPICE client on Linux Mint. I think i got everything installed finally. But when i try to open Proxmox SPICE file with remote viewer i get this error:
Unknown graphic type for the host
Couldn't create session for this type: spice

Any help ?

 

[dietmar]

What remote-viewer versions do you use (needs to be >= 0.5.6).

 

[wahmed]

virt-viewer 0.5.7
spice-gtk 0.9

 

[dietmar]

spice-gtk should be 0.21

 

[wahmed]

spice-gtk should be 0.21

I get this error while trying to install spice-gtk 0.21 during #make. ./configure went without problem.

./.libs/libspice-client-gtk-3.0.so: undefined reference to `GDK_IS_WAYLAND_WINDOW'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

 

[wahmed]

i have tried many different way to search for any missing lib. But it kept giving me the same message. I have confirmed that the libspice-client-gtk is installed.

 

[wahmed]

[SOLVED] Re: SPICE client in Linux Mint-Unknown graphics type

This issue is now Solved!

I left Linux Mint behind, installed Ubuntu 13.10 Desktop and used Software Center to install Remote Viewer 0.56. I can access SPICE VMs from my linux desktop now. Another step closer to leave Windows behind for good.

 

[mir]

Re: [SOLVED] Re: SPICE client in Linux Mint-Unknown graphics type

Yep. Latest version of Mint is based on Ubuntu 13.04 which only has virt-viewer 0.54 available.

 

[mir]

Re: [SOLVED] Re: SPICE client in Linux Mint-Unknown graphics type

For those wanting to use Linux Mint you are able to build virt-viewer-0.57 yourself by fetching the source: http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download/sources/virt-viewer/virt-viewer-0.5.7.tar.gz

 

[wahmed]

Re: [SOLVED] Re: SPICE client in Linux Mint-Unknown graphics type

For those wanting to use Linux Mint you are able to build virt-viewer-0.57 yourself by fetching the source: http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download/sources/virt-viewer/virt-viewer-0.5.7.tar.gz

Is this source different than the one on SPICE web site? I tried to install 0.5.7 version, but always ended up with GDK_IS_WAYLAND_WINDOW error.

 

[mir]

Re: [SOLVED] Re: SPICE client in Linux Mint-Unknown graphics type

The link was copied from here: http://www.spice-space.org/download.html

When compiling it you need the following option: --with-gtk=3

 

[wahmed]

Re: [SOLVED] Re: SPICE client in Linux Mint-Unknown graphics type

The link was copied from here: http://www.spice-space.org/download.html

When compiling it you need the following option: --with-gtk=3

I tried again with --with-gtk option to install virt-viewer on Linux Mint. Using --with-gtk=3.0, the compile goes ok with ./configure. But during #make it still gave me same error. I must be missing something more.

This is what it looks like after successful ./configure command : #./configure --enable-smartcard=no --with-gtk=3.0


After running #make it ends up with "At least one of spice or vnc must be used" error.

 

[mir]

Re: [SOLVED] Re: SPICE client in Linux Mint-Unknown graphics type

You need to install this package: libgtk-vnc-2.0-dev