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).
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.
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.
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.
Since qemu 1.0 was compiled, could this bug be closed ?
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Yes, can be closed.
Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED