Frozen screen in spice client - virt-viewer
Issue
- The windows spice client (virtual machine viewer) randomly freezes under certain conditions. The issue seems to be only observed while running a clipboard manager like
parcellite
orklipper
.
Environment
RHEV Infrastructure:
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization [RHEV] 3.3:
- rhevm-spice-client version 3.3-11.el6_5, and 3.3.12.el6_5, which delivers the cab files for the Windows virtual machine viewer 0.5.6-20 and 0.5.6-22
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization [RHEV] 3.4:
- rhevm-spice-client version 3.4-3.el6_5, which delivers the cab files for the Windows virtual machine viewer 0.5.6-23
Virtual Machine:
- RHEL 6 or 7 with
spice-vdagent
,ovirt-agent
and a clipboard manager likeparcellite
orklipper
installed and active. Behaviour is observed with multiple versions, including spice-vdagent-0.14.0-3.el6_5.x86_64
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