I think I found the culprit. When installing from ISO it installs HWE
kernel.
LXD 5.21 LTS uses the Virtio GPU by default but the ubuntu:22.04 image
uses 5.15 generic kernel which does not have virtio_gpu driver
ubuntu@desktop-jammy-vm:~$ lshw -C display
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Virtio GPU
vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=virtio-pci latency=0
resources: iomemory:80-7f irq:21 memory:80000000-807fffff
memory:800300000-800303fff memory:80800000-80800fff memory:c0000-dffff
*-graphics
product: EFI VGA
physical id: 1
logical name: /dev/fb0
capabilities: fb
configuration: depth=32 resolution=1280,800
WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as
super-user.
The way out of this situation is to install HWE kernel
$ apt install -y linux-virtual-hwe-22.04
and reboot
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2098014
Title:
spice-vdagent seems not to be working in jammy when connecting from
noble
Status in spice-vdagent package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Steps to reproduce
1. Create LXD VM desktop-jammy on Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) host
lxc init --vm ubuntu:22.04 desktop-jammy
2. lxc start desktop-noble
3. lxc exec desktop-noble bash
4. Install ubuntu-desktop metapackage
apt update
apt install -y ubuntu-desktop
5. Set passwd for ubuntu user
$ passwd ubuntu
6. Disable systemd-networkd-wait-online.service (otherwise it will wait for
timeout)
systemctl disable --now systemd-networkd-wait-online.service
7. Reboot
8. Connect to the vga console
lxc console --type=vga desktop-jammy
Wait for login screen to load
Expected result
The GDM login menu should appear
The actual result
The screen is stuck.
I saw that the daemon is not running
root@desktop-jammy:~# systemctl status spice-vdagentd
○ spice-vdagentd.service - Agent daemon for Spice guests
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/spice-vdagentd.service; indirect;
vendor preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
TriggeredBy: ● spice-vdagentd.socket
I started it
root@desktop-jammy:~# systemctl start spice-vdagentd
root@desktop-jammy:~# journalctl -u spice-vdagentd -f
Feb 11 17:26:14 desktop-jammy systemd[1]: Starting Agent daemon for Spice
guests...
Feb 11 17:26:14 desktop-jammy systemd[1]: Started Agent daemon for Spice
guests.
root@desktop-jammy:~# systemctl status spice-vdagentd
● spice-vdagentd.service - Agent daemon for Spice guests
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/spice-vdagentd.service; indirect;
vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2025-02-11 17:26:14 UTC; 9s ago
TriggeredBy: ● spice-vdagentd.socket
Process: 866 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/spice-vdagentd
$SPICE_VDAGENTD_EXTRA_ARGS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 867 (spice-vdagentd)
Tasks: 2 (limit: 8872)
Memory: 856.0K
CPU: 6ms
CGroup: /system.slice/spice-vdagentd.service
└─867 /usr/sbin/spice-vdagentd
Feb 11 17:26:14 desktop-jammy systemd[1]: Starting Agent daemon for Spice
guests...
Feb 11 17:26:14 desktop-jammy systemd[1]: Started Agent daemon for Spice
guests.
but still when I retry connecting to vga console the screen is stuck on
loading and shows nothing
When you check the systemd status it says
root@desktop-jammy:~# systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 428ms (kernel) + 7.285s (userspace) = 7.713s
graphical.target reached after 7.141s in userspace
When you try the same for ubuntu:24.04 all works as expected and you
also see the system logs on loading before seeing the Login screen.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: spice-vdagent 0.22.1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-1073.78-kvm 5.15.168
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-1073-kvm x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.6
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CloudArchitecture: x86_64
CloudID: lxd
CloudName: lxd
CloudPlatform: lxd
CloudSubPlatform: LXD socket API v. 1.0 (/dev/lxd/sock)
Date: Tue Feb 11 17:28:08 2025
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: spice-vdagent
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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