Hi Gilboa,

 

The spice protocol has been deprecated by Red Hat for over 3 years. It may still be available in CentOS or RHEL versions but not in OL.

It cannot be enabled.

 

Marcos

 

From: Gilboa Davara <gilboad@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2024 9:07 AM
To: oVirt Users <users@ovirt.org>
Subject: [External] : [ovirt-users] Importing VMs from CentOS 8 Streams to Oracle 8.9 oVirt (QXL issues)

 

Hello all,

 

I'm evaluating switching our existing oVirt clusters to Oracle Linux 8 oVirt 4.5.

It seems that Oracle has completely disabled QXL/Spice (leaving only VGA and Cirrus) on their oVirt fork (1).

I'm trying to import a VM from an existing oVirt data storage into an Oracle cluster, but I'm getting

'VAR__ACTION__IMPORT,VAR__TYPE__VM,ACTION_TYPE_FAILED_ILLEGAL_VM_DISPLAY_TYPE_IS_NOT_SUPPORTED_BY_OS' error.

Comparing the spice-related packages in Oracle and CentOS based oVirt installation, I see no changes.

 

Two questions:

1. Can I somehow enable QXL support in Oracle oVirt?

2. Assuming I can't, can I somehow editing the VM configuration without mounting in a temporary CentOS based cluster, editing the configuration and reimporting it into Oracle?

 

Thanks,

Gilboa

 

1) https://forums.oracle.com/ords/apexds/post/olvm-ol8-spice-support-completely-missing-how-to-enable-8796