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#1 2026-01-04 16:00:31

othersamo_
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From: Braislava
Registered: 2020-10-26
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QEMU VM + Spice guest tools no sound/clipboard

Hello,
I have one virtual machine - Windows 10 via Qemu. I use Virt manager to manage it. For over a year, audio and clipboard worked - I could play sounds from it and the clipboard was shared. I had it set up via Spice. I installed basic Spice tools on my Arch Linux host:

extra/ngspice 45.2-1
    Mixed-level/Mixed-signal circuit simulator based on Spice3f5, Ciber1b1, and Xspice
extra/otf-monaspace-nerd 3.4.0-1 (nerd-fonts)
    Patched font Monaspace (Monaspice) from nerd fonts library
extra/qemu-audio-spice 10.1.2-3 [installed]
    QEMU spice audio driver
extra/qemu-chardev-spice 10.1.2-3 [installed]
    QEMU spice chardev driver
extra/qemu-ui-spice-app 10.1.2-3 [installed]
    QEMU spice app UI driver
extra/qemu-ui-spice-core 10.1.2-3 [installed]
    QEMU spice core UI driver
extra/spice 0.16.0-2 [installed]
    SPICE server
extra/spice-gtk 0.42-5 [installed]
    GTK+ client library for SPICE
extra/spice-protocol 0.14.5-1 [installed]
    Headers for SPICE protocol
extra/spice-up 1.9.1-3
    Create simple and beautiful presentations
extra/spice-vdagent 0.23.0-1 [installed]
    Spice agent for Linux guests

And also downloaded the spice-guest-tools installed from their site and installed in on windows. This setup has worked well for over a year and a half but broke recently. Does anyone know what can be the root cause and how to fix it. Thanks.
Here are my machine details: http://bin.christitus.com/osuxiricob.xml

Last edited by othersamo_ (2026-01-04 16:04:06)


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#2 2026-01-04 16:51:44

ajgringo619
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Registered: 2023-05-06
Posts: 45

Re: QEMU VM + Spice guest tools no sound/clipboard

For starters, you don't need spice-vdagent on the host, spice-up has nothing to do with QEMU. I also noticed that your audio backend is not pointing to spice. Try changing

<audio id="1" type="none"/>

to

<audio id='1' type='spice'/>

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#3 2026-01-05 21:31:44

othersamo_
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From: Braislava
Registered: 2020-10-26
Posts: 161

Re: QEMU VM + Spice guest tools no sound/clipboard

Thank you, this managed to solve the audio issues. Clipboard worked for some moments yesterday but when I tried it now, it does not.


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#4 2026-01-05 22:44:10

ajgringo619
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Registered: 2023-05-06
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Re: QEMU VM + Spice guest tools no sound/clipboard

Have you updated any of the QEMU drivers recently? Do you have the latest VirtIO ISO? I use the aur/virtio-win package to get that ISO, it's directly available from https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/vi … io-win.iso

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#5 2026-01-13 13:39:08

othersamo_
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From: Braislava
Registered: 2020-10-26
Posts: 161

Re: QEMU VM + Spice guest tools no sound/clipboard

Yes, I have all the latest setup. Installed spice on my guest as I have shown + virtio win installed to my windows.
I have also update the spice guest tools and the clipboard is still not working.
Furthermore, I had a folder share which recently stopped working, so VirtIO is becoming a real mess in these days.


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