Strahil Nikolov and I took this conversation off-line for a few days. The thread of our discussion is below. Net result: No solution is yet found. Strahil had some very good ideas, but they did not pan out in this case. For archiving - and in hope that someone may have some other ideas! - I post this back to the list. -- Bill Gee ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [CentOS] Resizing a QEMU guest display Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2021, 10:38:08 PM CST From: Strahil Nikolov <hunter86_bg at yahoo.com> To: bgee at campercaver.net, Bill Gee <bgee at campercaver.net> Erm... mine was spice-vdagent.service , and not '.socket'.Never mind, it could be something else. Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 21:52, Bill Gee<bgee at campercaver.net> wrote: I restarted spice-vdagentd.socket on the guest that will not resize. It still will not resize. [root at practice21a ~]# systemctl restart spice-vdagentd.socket [root at practice21a ~]# systemctl status spice-vdagentd.socket ● spice-vdagentd.socket - Activation socket for spice guest agent daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/spice-vdagentd.socket; static) Active: active (listening) since Tue 2021-02-09 13:43:10 CST; 8s ago Triggers: ● spice-vdagentd.service Listen: /run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock (Stream) CGroup: /system.slice/spice-vdagentd.socket Feb 09 13:43:10 practice21a.billgee.local systemd[1]: Listening on Activation socket for spice guest a> [root at practice21a ~]# ps ax | grep spice 3018 ? Ssl 0:00 /usr/bin/spice-vdagent 3032 ? Ssl 0:00 /usr/sbin/spice-vdagentd 3554 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto spice [root at practice21a ~]# But! Just to be sure, I checked the guest that WILL resize. There is no service on it called spice-vdagentd.socket! There is also no process with spice in the name. The guest that should work does not, and the guest that should not work does! -- Bill Gee On Tuesday, February 9, 2021 12:56:38 PM CST you wrote: > The serviceis indirect, which means that another unit has to 'call' it. Try restarting the service in the VM. > # systemctl status spice-vdagentd.service ● spice-vdagentd.service - Agent daemon for Spice guests Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/spice-vdagentd.service; indirect; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Mon 2021-02-08 22:31:06 EET; 22h ago Main PID: 27963 (spice-vdagentd) Tasks: 1 CGroup: /system.slice/spice-vdagentd.service └─27963 /usr/sbin/spice-vdagentd Feb 08 22:31:06 openshift1 systemd[1]: Starting Agent dae...Feb 08 22:31:06 openshift1 systemd[1]: Started Agent daem...Feb 08 22:31:07 openshift1 spice-vdagentd[27963]: opening...Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full. > Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 20:50, Bill Gee<bgee at campercaver.net> wrote: > Hmmmm.... I am missing something. Why would rebooting the entire computer NOT restart the service? > > > And for that matter - Exactly what service are you talking about? Can you be more specific? > > > > The service is of type indirect. Try to restart only the service (not the guest). > > > Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 20:31, Bill Gee<bgee at campercaver.net> wrote: > > > The host and all of its guests have been rebooted multiple times in the last two days. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Have you restarted the service ?Yesterday I built a CentOS 7 system and spice didn't resize untill I restarted the service. > > > > > > > Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 14:40, Bill Gee<bgee at campercaver.net> wrote: Hi Strahil - > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for the link. Unfortunately it is not helpful. The spice agent is already installed on the guest, and the spice channel is already configured. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [bgee at practice21a ~]$ rpm -qa | grep spice > > > > > > > spice-vdagent-0.20.0-3.fc33.x86_64 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > A question occurs to me ... The working guest also has both the spice-vdagent package and the spice channel. Why does it work and the other guest does not? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I think the following is a good start: > > > > > > > > 11.3. SPICE Agent Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Red Hat Customer Portal > > > > > > > > | > > > > > > > > | > > > > > > > > | > > > > > > > > | | | > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > | > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > | > > > > > > > > | > > > > > > > > | | > > > > > > > > 11.3. SPICE Agent Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Red Hat Customer Portal > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The Red Hat Customer Portal delivers the knowledge, expertise, and guidance available through your Red Hat subscription. > > > > > > > > | | > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > | > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > | > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 20:29, Bill Gee<bgee at campercaver.net> wrote: Hi Strahil - > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > How does one reach a guest via spice? I am not familiar with any remote access application called "spice". I have tried two methods of accessing the host. First is to open it from the Virtual Machine Manager on the host. Second is to use TigerVNC to access it across the local network. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I see a package installed on the guest which looks like the guest agent. Is there more that needs to be added? This is the only qemu package installed on both the Fedora machine that does not resize and the CentOS7 machine that will resize. The versions are way different between the two guests. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [root at practice21a ~]# rpm -qa | grep qemu > > > > > > > > qemu-guest-agent-5.1.0-9.fc33.x86_64 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The Fedora guest has, as you see, version 5.1.0-9. The CentOS7 guest has version 2.12.0-3. Perhaps the Fedora guest version is too new to run on a CentOS7 host?? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I see other QEMU packages available. One of them is called "qemu-device-display-qxl" which is very suggestive. However, that package is NOT installed on the CentOS7 guest and yet that guest works. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Another package I see is "libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu". This package is installed on the host but is not present on either guest. Is it needed on guests? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Have you tried to reach the VM via spice ?Also check if qemu's guest agent is runningin the VM. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Best Regards,Strahil Nikolov > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > > CentOS mailing list > > > > > > > > CentOS at centos.org > > > > > > > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > CentOS mailing list > > > > > > > CentOS at centos.org > > > > > > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----------------------------------------