Wednesday, January 18, 2012


Set up Spice-Gtk 0.8 (USB Redirection support) on Ubuntu Precise



Short list of the changes per [1] :

- add USB redirection support, see Hans comments in the log and that
post for details: http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/11084.html
- introduce SpiceGtkSession to deal with session-wide Gtk events, such
as clipboard, instead of doing it per display
- many cursor and keyboard handling improvements
- handle the new "semi-seamless" migration
- support new Spice mini-headers
- better coroutines: fibers on windows & jmp on linux
- add Vala vapi bindings generation
- many bug fixes and code improvements


Build requires spice-protocol 0.10.1 and the most recent usbredir 0.3.3
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Link to PPA Qemu-kvm 1.0 & Spice-protocol 0.10.1 & Spice-Gtk 0.8 USB Redirection on Ubuntu Precise
View also PPA Set up Spice-Gtk 0.8 on Ubuntu Precise
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$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bderzhavets/lib-usbredir58
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm qemu qemu-common qemu-utils \
spice-client libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev \
libusbredir libusbredir-dev usbredir-server \
libspice-protocol-dev libspice-server-dev \
libspice-client-glib-2.0-4 libspice-client-glib-2.0-dev \
libspice-client-gtk-2.0-1 libspice-client-gtk-2.0-dev \
libspice-client-gtk-3.0-1 libspice-client-gtk-3.0-dev \
python-spice-client-gtk spice-client-gtk

$ sudo groupadd libvirtd
$ sudo adduser $USER libvirtd
RELOGIN
$ sudo apt-get install virtinst virt-manager virt-viewer
$ sudo ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.libvirtd /etc/apparmor.d/disable/

To start default network :-

sudo virsh net-start default
sudo virsh net-autostart default

Works with QEMU-KVM 1.0 with no special patch

1.http://www.mail-archive.com/spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org/msg06659.html