On Sun, Apr 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM Serhio Gor <youser...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> My name is Sergio , I'm sysadmin  and I use Proxmox with virtual machines
> with Spice remote connection.
> Today I faced with problem -
>
> Have Virtual machine with Devuan and GUI Mate . During surfing in internet
> and when I click some buttons on pages the virtual machine freezes and
> don't work . In logs I found
> kernel: [16172.719139] [drm:qxl_gem_object_create [qxl]] *ERROR* Failed to
> allocate GEM object (261164, 1, 4096, -12)
> kernel: [16172.719160] [drm:qxl_alloc_ioctl [qxl]] *ERROR*
> qxl_alloc_ioctl: failed to create gem ret=-12
>
>  I found this problem  described here
> https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/ttm-buffer-eviction-failed.152720/
> solution is not to use QXL but use virtio
> =================================================
> Hi,
>
> @jebbam <https://forum.proxmox.com/members/77564/> I cannot solve your
> problem but at least I can reference a workaround:
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=215839
>
> QXL should be the culprit and the workaround is to switch to VirtIO for
> the display settings.
>
> View attachment 75429 <https://forum.proxmox.com/attachments/75429/>
>
> VDI Client still works fine. Also feels faster.
>
> Other reference and bonus:
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/1b01sbx/spice_really_sluggish_with_ubuntu_2204/
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/Proxmox/comments/1auvdlg/qxl_vs_virtio_gpu_vs_virgl_gpu_trivial_benchmark/
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan
> ===================================================
> but I need Spice connection to virtual machines and without qxl it doesn't
> work.
>
> I ask you if you have some patch or another solution for this problem
> please give me answer.
> Thank you in advance!
>

Spice should work with virtio too.

Besides, QXL driver should not cause GEM allocation errors, meaning that
the bug should be fixed.

Frediano

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