Ubuntu
qemu package

no more kvm-spice

Bug #1126258 reported by mard0
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
qemu (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Serge Hallyn

Bug Description

Now that spice is a dependency of kvm there is no more /usr/bin/kvm-spice file. So when starting a VM with virt-manager there is an error saying there is no kvm-spice. Adding a symlink to /usr/bin/kvm fixes the problem

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: qemu-kvm 1.3.0+dfsg-5expubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-6.13-generic 3.8.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-6-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 15 15:13:12 2013
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: qemu
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/saucy/qemu
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mard0 (martijn-doornbusch-l) wrote :
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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote :

I would prefer to not always have that symbolic link (in a main package, to support transition from a universe package).

I'm wondering whether we can handle this in libvirt instead. By automatically updating the xml (which could go away after next LTS + 1), or (less preferable) by special-casing kvm-spice when processing a domain.

In either case the kvm-spice patch in libvirt can also go away.

Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)
Changed in qemu (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in libvirt (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Changed in qemu (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote :

Could you paste your .xml, and tell us exactly how you created the VM?

When I create a new spice VM using virt-manager, all seems to go well - but I do suspect there may be a problem for any pre-existing spice vms.

Changed in qemu (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
Changed in libvirt (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
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Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn) wrote :

Sorry - never mind comment #3, I will go ahead and add a symlink in the qemu-kvm package.

no longer affects: libvirt (Ubuntu)
Changed in qemu (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package qemu - 1.4.0+dfsg-1expubuntu3

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qemu (1.4.0+dfsg-1expubuntu3) raring; urgency=low

  * debian/rules: add a symlink from kvm-spice to kvm in qemu-kvm, on
    i386/amd64 targets. (LP: #1126258)
 -- Serge Hallyn <email address hidden> Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:17:16 -0600

Changed in qemu (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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