Unable to define, create or start a Virtual Machine using spice or qxl in RHEL 9 KVM

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Issue

  • After upgrading from RHEL 8 to 9, some Virtual Machines fails to start.
  • Cannot provision new Virtual Machines in RHEL 9 using spice.
  • Trying to create a Virtual Machine with virt-install using spice graphics fails with:

    # virt-install [...] --graphics spice
    ERROR    unsupported configuration: domain configuration does not support video model 'qxl'
    
  • Trying to create a Virtual Machine with virt-install using spice graphics and vga display fails with:

    # virt-install [...] --graphics spice --video vga
    ERROR    unsupported configuration: spice graphics are not supported with this QEMU
    
  • Trying to define, edit or start a Virtual Machine with spice graphics fails with:

    error: unsupported configuration: spice graphics are not supported with this QEMU
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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