On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 23:14:31 -0500 Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> wrote:
> When I try to start a virtual machine, I get the error: > > Error connecting to graphical console: > Error opening Spice console, SpiceClientGtk missing > > on whichever VM I try to start. > > The Virtual Machine Manager shows the VM is running but I can't connect. > The system running the VMs is Debian/Stretch while my workstation is > Debian/Buster. This worked until fairly recently (I don't start up the > VMs too often, but I'm sure I did sometime in the last month). So far as > I can tell, spice is running on both the host and client machines. > > Any ideas on what's changed to cause this problem? No, but I do remember that when I installed virt* packages, it took a fair bit of sleuthing / trial and error to figure out which spice packages needed to be installed to get the graphical console to work. Here's what I currently have: $ apt list --installed '*spice*' Listing... Done gir1.2-spice-client-glib-2.0/stable,now 0.33-3.3 amd64 [installed,automatic] gir1.2-spice-client-gtk-3.0/stable,now 0.33-3.3 amd64 [installed,automatic] libspice-client-glib-2.0-8/stable,now 0.33-3.3 amd64 [installed,automatic] libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5/stable,now 0.33-3.3 amd64 [installed,automatic] libspice-server1/stable,stable,now 0.12.8-2.1+deb9u1 amd64 [installed,automatic] spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper/stable,now 0.33-3.3 amd64 [installed,automatic] Celejar
