Bug 1573981 - Clipboard freezes when KVM/QEMU VM window is opened using virt-manager
Summary: Clipboard freezes when KVM/QEMU VM window is opened using virt-manager
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kf5-plasma
Version: 28
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Daniel Vrátil
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-05-02 16:03 UTC by Adam
Modified: 2019-05-28 20:01 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-05-28 20:01:55 UTC
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Description Adam 2018-05-02 16:03:46 UTC
Description of problem:
Tested on F26-27-28

Recently I powered on older laptop with Fedora 26 with KDE Plasma that hasn’t been updated for some time. After update I quickly realized that there is something wrong with clipboard.

On F26 without updates I was used to open multiple local KVM/QEMU VMs via virt-manager and for example one or two VMs on remote host over LAN and everything worked well - Windows VMs with installed Spice drivers and Fedora 26 VMs that have spice-vdagent installed by default. Copy & pasting text between VMs or just within host worked just fine.

Then I updated F26 host. Clipboard worked just fine until I opened some VM windows. After that clipboard freezes time to time when pasting. Sometime pasting just don’t work and sometime when you press Ctrl + V all keyboard inputs freeze and keyboard simple stop working for a couple of seconds. The only workaround is to close VM windows.

This is extremely irritating since you never know if Paste will or won’t work. I also tested this issue on F27 and F28. They all have this issue.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Everything is OK for:
plasma-*-5.10.5
kf5-*-5.35.0 / 17.04.1
qt5-*-5.7.1

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install F26 KDE Plasma, do not update
2. Run multiple VMs, some with F26 KDE Plasma, some with Windows with Spice drivers
3. Open virt-manager VM windows
4. Copy and paste in host inside for example Kate or between host and VM – everything works just fine
5. Update F26 host
6. Again copy/cut and paste – paste sometime won’t work and sometime it will also freeze keyboard for a couple of seconds
7. Close VM windows
8. Everything is OK again

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2019-05-02 21:53:01 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 28 is nearing its end of life.
On 2019-May-28 Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for
Fedora 28. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases
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Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2019-05-28 20:01:55 UTC
Fedora 28 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-05-28. Fedora 28 is
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