Bug 734693

Summary:	Install Graphics as Spice is not taken effect in Preferences setting
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Min Zhan <mzhan>
Component:	virt-manager	Assignee:	Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.2	CC:	jwu, mzhan, rwu, zpeng
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2011-12-06 16:15:36 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	748554

Description Min Zhan 2011-08-31 07:53:45 UTC

Description of problem:
Launch virt-manager, Click Edit -> Preferences, Choose SPICE as Install Graphics, then close. New a guest in localhost connection, found its graphics is still VNC.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
# uname -r
2.6.32-191.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.184.el6.x86_64
libvirt-0.9.4-6.el6.x86_64
virt-manager-0.9.0-6.el6.x86_64
python-virtinst-0.600.0-3.el6.noarch

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. As description

  
Actual results:
As above

Expected results:
New guest graphics should be SPICE.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2011-09-26 21:07:20 UTC

Fixed upstream:

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git?p=virt-manager.git;a=commit;h=e37b67b59ae354ec9036fb21e39e8e6ac3ac53bf

Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2011-09-27 15:49:05 UTC

Since spice is supposed to be the default graphics device for new guests, we want this fixed for 6.2. Setting blocker?

Comment 3 Cole Robinson 2011-10-13 21:49:18 UTC

Fixed in virt-manager-0.9.0-7.el6

Comment 6 Daisy Wu 2011-10-17 03:43:45 UTC

The bug can reproduce on version:
virt-manager-0.9.0-6.el6

Verified on version:
virt-manager-0.9.0-7.el6

Environment:
kernel-2.6.32-206.el6.x86_64
libvirt-0.9.4-17.el6
python-virtinst-0.600.0-3.el6
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.195.el6.x86_64

Detail Steps:
1.Launch virt-manager
2.Click Edit -> Preferences, Choose SPICE as Install Graphics, then close.
3.New a guest in localhost connection, found its graphics is SPICE.
#virsh dumpxml rhel6.2
.....
<graphics type='spice' port='5900' tlsPort='-1' autoport='yes'/>
.....

so change the status to verified.

Comment 7 Cole Robinson 2011-11-07 16:43:09 UTC

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Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 16:15:36 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1642.html