Re: Boxes on Mageia

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange redhat com>]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:30:16AM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 06:03:44PM -0500, Michael Hill wrote:
> > Okay, added Mageia's qemu package which loads kvm module.  Next error is:
> 
> Thanks for all the debugging! I only started gnome-boxes. Should've
> really done more and fixed all these packaging problems.
> 
> gnome-boxes-3.3.3-3.mga2 will require: qemu, qemu-img, libvirtsh
> 
> > Boxes-WARNING **: wizard.vala:136: Unable to start domain: internal
> > error Process exited while reading console log output:
> > qemu-system-x86_64: -spice port=5900,addr=127.0.0.1,disable-ticketing:
> > there is no option group "spice"
> > spice is not supported by this qemu build.
> 
> Another packaging problem. I need to rebuild qemu with --enable-spice.
> Looking at http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=qemu.git;a=tree, it
> seems *loads* of patches need to be applied to qemu. I need to
> coordinate this with the maintainer. Bit too invasive to do on my own.

I doubt you actually need any of those patches - just make sure your
QEMU is built with SPICE support to start with, and only worry about
other patches if it still has problems.

Daniel
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