[virt-tools-list] where is virt-viewer

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:10:16AM +1100, Tom Robinson wrote:
> 
> On 14/11/16 17:51, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 4:12 AM, Tom Robinson <tom.robinson at motec.com.au> wrote:
> >> Ubuntu Xenial (16.04.1 LTS)
> >> virt-viewer: virt-viewer-4.0.tar.gz
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I feel quite stupid. I've downloaded the src for virt-viewer, configured and run make, make install.
> >> Everything seems to have compiled and installed without issue but I can't find 'virt-viewer'
> >> anywhere. Where is virt-viewer? What have I missed?
> > 
> > virt-viewer binary you'll show up in case you have built with libvirt
> > support. Otherwise you will find "remote-viewer" installed.
> > 
> >>
> >> My system does have a packaged version of virt-viewer 1.00 installed already  but I want the latest
> >> 4.0 to do some testing. Does that packaged version defeat the compilation and install of an
> >> alternate version?
> > 
> > Nops.
> > Check for remote-viewer, please, and let us know.
> 
> Yes, I have remote-viewer.
> 
> On my Ubuntu box, I've now installed the following:
> 
> libvirt-dev
> libvirt-glib-1.0-dev
> 
> After running configure and make, make install again I have virt-viewer. Thanks!
> 
> Now virt-viewer connects to VNC enabled guests and it appears to function correctly but I see an
> error message from GDK on stderr:
> 
> (virt-viewer:19204): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_set_cursor: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
> 
> 
> Also, I'm unable to connect to spice enabled guests. I see the dialogue box error:
> 
> Failed to connect: Unsupported graphic type 'spice'

You need to have a recent enough version of spice-gtk to be installed
for spice support to be enabled when you build. Make sure this is
installed, and look at configure output, it should give more details
about this.

Christophe
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