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dboat

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Registered: 2010-08-26

Posts: 33

[WorkArounded] Cannot enable spice-vdagentd

I have not used Archlinux for quite some years so I consider myself as newbie.

Just freshly build a vm on KVM+QEMU (no virt-manager etc) with fluxbox+lxdm.  No problem autologin to desktop when boot.  However, I find that spice-vdagentd is inactive (dead) and I cannot enable it.  I find no obvious error from dmesg and journalctl -xe

I do some google and trace to the file /usr/lib/systemd/system/spice-vdagentd.service and find

[Unit]
Description=Agent daemon for Spice guests
After=dbus.target
...

When I try to do something with this dbus.target, I find that it just not exists.  At least not in the output of
$ sudo systemctl list-units --type=target

I read from the wiki page https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/systemd that "Target" is related to RunLevel. @@

I am quite confused on what should I READ next.

Any help is welcome.  Thanks a lot.

Last edited by dboat (2018-09-04 13:52:58)

dboat

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Registered: 2010-08-26

Posts: 33

Re: [WorkArounded] Cannot enable spice-vdagentd

Just created another vm where gnome+gdm is used instead of fluxbox+lxdm.  spice-vdagentd works out-of-the-box this time.  On the other hand, dbus.target is still absent.  So, this is not the issue.

Still lack of idea on how to proceed, what to look for.  Could it be a bug?

dboat

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Registered: 2010-08-26

Posts: 33

Re: [WorkArounded] Cannot enable spice-vdagentd

Tried Xfce4+lxdm, it works too.  However, I still prefer fluxbox.  Just find a work around, run

$ spice-vdagent

and copy & paste between host and guest will be enabled until next boot.

I put it in ~/.xprofile.

Last edited by dboat (2018-09-04 13:52:21)