> On Jul 24, 2014, at 3:04 PM, Orion Poplawski <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/24/2014 12:53 PM, Patrick Mahan wrote:
>> Good day,
>> 
>> I'm running SL6.5 on a Dell T110 II (Xeon E3-1230)
>> 
>> I have installed Fedora 20 in VM and wanted to switch from vnc to spice.  
>> Spice requires qxl which I have installed.  However, when I tried to switch 
>> it lets me create a spice graphics device, but when it try to create a qxl 
>> video device, it only shows me "cirrus", "default", "vga", "vmvga" or "xen". 
>>  The I get "unsupported configuration: non-primary video device must be type 
>> 'qxl'
>> 
>> I googled and saw a Red Hat bug related to VM cloning but I am not cloning a 
>> VM.
>> 
>> Any pointers are appreciated.
> 
> Strange, worked here for me.  Have you restarted libvirtd since installing 
> spice-server on the host?  What version of qemu-kvm?
> 

I rebooted the host (not the VM) multiple times. After fighting with it for a 
day, I just deleted the machine and recreated it using the save virtio blk 
image and choose spice as the graphics device. Then the video qxl option showed 
up. 

Thanks,

Patrick

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