Vm creation fails with: failed to initialize spice server (Ubuntu 22.04)

[tgwaste]

Explain what happens

ERROR internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2023-09-13T07:02:14.596717Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: Spice: ../server/reds.cpp:2512:reds_init_socket: getaddrinfo(::1,5913): Address family for hostname not supported 2023-09-13T07:02:14.596749Z qemu-system-x86_64: warning: Spice: ../server/reds.cpp:3387:do_spice_init: Failed to open SPICE sockets 2023-09-13T07:02:14.596760Z qemu-system-x86_64: failed to initialize spice server Domain installation does not appear to have been successful. If it was, you can restart your domain by running: virsh --connect qemu:///system start ubuntu-desktop otherwise, please restart your installation.

Version of Cockpit

cockpit-machines 298-1~bpo22.04.1 -- every thing else 300.1-1~bpo22.04.1

Where is the problem in Cockpit?

Services

Server operating system

Ubuntu

Server operating system version

22.04

What browsers are you using?

Firefox

System log

I used this same .iso a month or so ago and the vm created fine.
Tried a few more isos and got the same error.
Tried rebooting and still no good.
I am completely unable to create any new vm.

[tgwaste]

Any ideas here? I mean this pretty much breaks the fundamental purpose of cockpit.

[martinpitt]

@skobyda Any idea about that spice error? That sounds like a missing package perhaps, or some customization to enable/disable spice?

We run tests on Ubuntu 22.04, it does work in general. @tgwaste as a first step, please give us the output of

dpkg -l '*qemu*' '*libvirt'

[tgwaste]

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                           Version                                Architecture Description
+++-==============================-======================================-============-======================================================================
ii  ipxe-qemu                      1.21.1+git-20220113.fbbdc3926-0ubuntu1 all          PXE boot firmware - ROM images for qemu
ii  ipxe-qemu-256k-compat-efi-roms 1.0.0+git-20150424.a25a16d-0ubuntu4    all          PXE boot firmware - Compat EFI ROM images for qemu
ii  libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu     8.0.0-1ubuntu7.6                       amd64        Virtualization daemon QEMU connection driver
ii  python3-libvirt                8.0.0-1build1                          amd64        libvirt Python 3 bindings
ii  qemu-block-extra               1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.13                 amd64        extra block backend modules for qemu-system and qemu-utils
un  qemu-keymaps                   <none>                                 <none>       (no description available)
un  qemu-kvm                       <none>                                 <none>       (no description available)
un  qemu-skiboot                   <none>                                 <none>       (no description available)
un  qemu-slof                      <none>                                 <none>       (no description available)
un  qemu-system                    <none>                                 <none>       (no description available)
un  qemu-system-arm                <none>                                 <none>       (no description available)
ii  qemu-system-common             1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.13                 amd64        QEMU full system emulation binaries (common files)
ii  qemu-system-data               1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.13                 all          QEMU full system emulation (data files)
ii  qemu-system-gui                1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.13                 amd64        QEMU full system emulation binaries (user interface and audio support)
un  qemu-system-i386               <none>                                 <none>       (no description available)
un  qemu-system-mips               <none>                                 <none>       (no description available)
un  qemu-system-misc               <none>                                 <none>       (no description available)
un  qemu-system-ppc                <none>                                 <none>       (no description available)
un  qemu-system-s390x              <none>                                 <none>       (no description available)
un  qemu-system-sparc              <none>                                 <none>       (no description available)
ii  qemu-system-x86                1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.13                 amd64        QEMU full system emulation binaries (x86)
un  qemu-system-x86-64             <none>                                 <none>       (no description available)
un  qemu-system-x86-microvm        <none>                                 <none>       (no description available)
un  qemu-system-x86-xen            <none>                                 <none>       (no description available)
ii  qemu-utils                     1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu6.13                 amd64        QEMU utilities

[martinpitt]

I botched the command, I meant dpkg -l '*qemu*' '*libvirt*', but it's fine -- I don't see any extra related spice packages in our test VMs.

It's worth a try to install virt-viewer and virtinst and check if that makes a difference?

[tgwaste]

these are already installed actually :(

virt-viewer is already the newest version (7.0-2build2).
virtinst is already the newest version (1:4.0.0-1).

[KKoukiou]

Looks like https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qemu/+bug/1492621