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Mastering Proxmox

By : Wasim Ahmed
Book Image

Mastering Proxmox

By: Wasim Ahmed

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Proxmox
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

VNC/SPICE console issues


This section contains issues related to the VNC and SPICE consoles in Proxmox.

The mouse pointer is not shared with SPICE-VIEWER on Windows 8 VM

In order to have a seamless mouse point between the VM and host machine, SPICE Guest Tools must be installed inside the VM. The Guest Tools package contains full driver support for Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2. However, the support for Windows 8 or 8.1 is close to nonexistent.

The SPICE console has become unstable after the Proxmox VE 3.2 update

After clicking on the SPICE button for a SPICE-enabled VM, the browser gives an empty ticket error. This is a common occurrence if the browser cache is not updated after a Proxmox upgrade. Just refreshing the browser will fix this issue.

Remote Viewer is unable to connect to a SPICE-enabled virtual machine on Windows OS

This issue is caused by a firewall that blocks the SPICE port, which prevents SPICE-enabled virtual machines to be connected to SPICE. The error message is shown in the...