This post follows up Bug #998435 qemu–kvm–spice doesn’t support spice/qxl installs
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bderzhavets/lib-usbredir80
$ 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-2.0-1 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 apt-get install virtinst virt-manager virt-viewer
$ sudo ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.libvirtd /etc/apparmor.d/disable/
$ sudo adduser $USER libvirtd
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Link to PPA Set up qemu-kvm-1.0+noroms as spice enabled qemu server
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Set up qemu-kvm-1.0+noroms as spice enabled qemu server & Spice 0.10.1 with Visio patches for Windows
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Link to PPA Set up qemu-kvm-1.0+noroms as spice enabled qemu server & Spice 0.10.1 with Visio patches for Windows
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Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris 
Thnx for this stuff: just works !
-> working spice, with winXP guest using spice-guest-tools-0.1.exe (http://spice-space.org/download/binaries/)
Thanks for the ppa!
Is it sync with the git repository ?
I experience this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=808936 and it seams fixed upstream
> Is it sync with the git repository ?
No. Build is based on :
http://spice-space.org/download.html
0.10.1 – stable release
SPICE – Server spice-0.10.1.tar.bz2
spice-protocol – headers defining protocols, spice-protocol-0.10.1.tar.bz2
I just built patched version of SPICE 0.10.1-5 ( per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=808936 ) in PPA
https://launchpad.net/~bderzhavets/+archive/lib-usbredir79/+packages
Try attach this PPA to your system and upgrade SPICE. If it will work, I’ll copy new SPICE 0.10.1 to main PPA.
Wow thanks for the quick update!
I upgraded spice to 0.10.1-5 and it works like a charm now.
hello,
i try your PPA , but my xp vitrual machine is always black …
if y try it with Fedora17 , qxl is fonctional….
i note a difference , with ubuntu i need to sudo virt-manager , but with Fedora ….
i think that the problem is somewhere in package qemu-kvm-spice .
i found it only in universe precise repository ….
There seems to be a privilege problem. I did following:
sudo chmod 770 /var/lib/libvirt/qemu
I also added my user to kvm group. After that I could start virt-manager without sudo.