Sparky virtual machine cannot copy&paste with the host

[mirto]

Hi all,
I have a Kubuntu 22.04 host and a KVM virtual machine with Sparkylinux 7 kde as guest.
I'm not able to copy and paste to or from the guest.

What I've tried:

• Verified that copy and paste works correctly with other guests
• installed in sparky spice-vdagent

Strangely after a reboot the spice-vdagent is stopped

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mirto@vmbianco500:~$ sudo systemctl status spice-vdagent
[sudo] password di mirto:
○ spice-vdagentd.service - Agent daemon for Spice guests
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/spice-vdagentd.service; indirect; preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
TriggeredBy: ● spice-vdagentd.socket
mirto@vmbianco500:~$

Also starting the service by hand doesn't work.

What can I do?



 

[bin]

The bottom of this page may help https://askubuntu.com/questions/858649/how-can-i-copypaste-from-the-host-to-a-kvm-guest

[mirto]

Well, I'm actually using spice-vdagent.

In the Kubuntu host the spice-vdagentd daemon is active.
I suppose it is working because other guests (Ubuntu-Mate, Kubuntu, Kali) are able to correctly copy and paste.
All clients were created usingVirtual Machine Manager.

UPDATE

The problem is only with Sparky 7 rolling KDE (iso sparkylinux-2022.07-x86_64-kde.iso)
Instead Sparky Gameover edition (iso sparkylinux-2022.07-x86_64-gameover.iso) works correctly

The Sparky Gameover copy and paste correctly ald spice-vdagent is started:

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mirto@sparkytest:~$ sudo systemctl status spice-vdagent
[sudo] password di mirto:
● spice-vdagentd.service - Agent daemon for Spice guests
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/spice-vdagentd.service; indirect; vend>
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2022-10-01 10:57:03 CEST; 3min 33s ago
TriggeredBy: ● spice-vdagentd.socket
    Process: 1526 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/spice-vdagentd $SPICE_VDAGENTD_EXTRA_ARGS>
   Main PID: 1532 (spice-vdagentd)
      Tasks: 2 (limit: 6868)
     Memory: 1.0M
        CPU: 362ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/spice-vdagentd.service
             └─1532 /usr/sbin/spice-vdagentd

ott 01 10:57:03 sparkytest systemd[1]: Starting Agent daemon for Spice guests...
ott 01 10:57:03 sparkytest systemd[1]: Started Agent daemon for Spice guests.
ott 01 10:57:03 sparkytest spice-vdagentd[1532]: opening vdagent virtio channel
ott 01 10:57:03 sparkytest spice-vdagentd[1532]: Set max clipboard: 104857600
ott 01 10:57:03 sparkytest spice-vdagentd[1532]: Set max clipboard: 104857600
mirto@sparkytest:~$


Instead in Sparky KDE copy&paste don't work and spice-vdagent is stopped

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mirto@vmbianco500:~$ sudo systemctl status spice-vdagent
○ spice-vdagentd.service - Agent daemon for Spice guests
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/spice-vdagentd.service; indirect; preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
TriggeredBy: ● spice-vdagentd.socket
mirto@vmbianco500:~$

I'll try again to enable and start the service.

I'dont know what is the difference between the two Sparky versions.

[mirto]

Workaround

With APTus install Mate desktop.

From a Mate session copy&paste works correctly

There is any solution instead of the workaround?