[CentOS] Rhel8 guest and window resizing (possible OT)

Mon May 20 17:24:34 UTC 2019
Nataraj <incoming-centos at rjl.com>

I have installed a redhat 8 server in a KVM/Qemu VM guest to prepare for
CentOS 8.  The host is running Ubuntu 18.04.  Window resizing does not
work at all (it works in ubuntu and windows guests).  Is this a problem
with incompatible versions of spice or is there something else besides
the spice daemon that I should be looking at.  Does this work correctly
under CentOS 6 & 7 Host?

Display device is set as follows (same as ubuntu guest)

Type: spice server

listen type: address

Address: localhost only

port: auto (5900)

TLS port: auto

passowrd: (none, field is blank)

keymap: (none, field is blank)

OpenGL: (not checked)


Spice agent is running in RHEL8 vm

gdm       2900  0.0  0.2 256148  7992 ?        Ssl  08:32   0:00
/usr/bin/spice-vdagent
root      2909  0.0  0.0  49152   336 ?        Ss   08:32   0:00
/usr/sbin/spice-vdagentd
nataraj   7640  0.0  0.1 256148  7736 ?        Ssl  08:32   0:00
/usr/bin/spice-vdagent

Following spice packages are installed in RHEL8 GUEST.

spice-server-0.14.0-7.el8.x86_64
spice-glib-0.35-7.el8.x86_64
spice-gtk3-0.35-7.el8.x86_64
spice-vdagent-0.18.0-3.el8.x86_64


Following packages are installed on KVM/Qemu host:

ii  gir1.2-spiceclientglib-2.0:amd64          
0.34-1.1build1                               amd64        GObject for
communicating with Spice servers (GObject-Introspection)
ii  gir1.2-spiceclientgtk-3.0:amd64           
0.34-1.1build1                               amd64        GTK3 widget
for SPICE clients (GObject-Introspection)
ii  libspice-client-glib-2.0-8:amd64          
0.34-1.1build1                               amd64        GObject for
communicating with Spice servers (runtime library)
ii  libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5:amd64           
0.34-1.1build1                               amd64        GTK3 widget
for SPICE clients (runtime library)
ii  libspice-server1:amd64                    
0.14.0-1ubuntu2.4                            amd64        Implements the
server side of the SPICE protocol
ii  spice-client-glib-usb-acl-helper          
0.34-1.1build1                               amd64        Helper tool to
validate usb ACLs
ii  spice-vdagent                                       0.17.0-1ubuntu2

Ubuntu Guest has following packages installed:

ii  spice-vdagent                             
0.17.0-1ubuntu2                              amd64        Spice agent
for Linux

Thank You,

Nataraj