Bug 4087

Summary:	GNOME boxes requires qemu with --enable-spice
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Olav Vitters <olav>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Michael Scherer <misc>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Source RPM:	qemu-0.15.0-2.mga2.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Olav Vitters 2012-01-10 10:36:46 CET

GNOME boxes requires various things. Amongst one is that qemu is compiled with --enable-spice. Could this be done?

Seems the spice support requires various patches if I look at Fedora:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=qemu.git;a=tree

Could you either add --enable-spice to qemu, or give me the ok to do so myself? It seems a bit invasive to do so without explicitly asking the maintainer.

Background story:
Michael Hill has been testing our GNOME boxes package in:
  https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-boxes-list/2012-January/msg00009.html
and is discovering all kinds of packaging problems (my fault; only started GNOME boxes, should've actually created a VM).

Comment 1 Michael Scherer 2012-01-10 10:48:04 CET

Does it work without the patchs ?
I am not keen into using non upstreamed patches, and according to comment, that's the problem.
Also, we are using qemu-kvm, not plain qemu so the patch may not be the same.

So can you try without patches and see if there is a problem, I will discuss with people working on spice to see if this is needed, or what they really fix.

Comment 2 Olav Vitters 2012-01-10 11:24:48 CET

According to https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-boxes-list/2012-January/msg00018.html, the patches should not be needed. So I'll rebuild locally and test (will take me a while).

KVM is fine btw. They mentioned qemu-kvm before as the package to use.

Comment 3 Olav Vitters 2012-01-11 01:44:35 CET

committed the changes, but cannot submit qemu... during build it cannot find the newly imported spice-server-devel.

Note: gnome-boxes still draws a black screen. Need to check if that is due to missing patches, or yet another problem.

Comment 4 Michael Scherer 2012-03-04 00:45:29 CET

Since qemu 1.0 was compiled, could this bug be closed ?

Manuel Hiebel 2012-03-08 16:40:33 CET

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 5 Olav Vitters 2012-03-11 11:32:13 CET

Yes, can be closed.

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED