id = 1426
title = "On windows, display spice-app is not able to initialize, start spice-server and consequently can't use spice-client"
state = "opened"
created_at = "2023-01-09T08:39:09.603Z"
closed_at = "n/a"
labels = ["hostos: Windows", "kind::Feature Request", "spice"]
url = "https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1426"
host-os = "Windows 22H2"
host-arch = "x86_64"
qemu-version = "QEMU emulator version 7.2.0 (v7.2.0-11948-ge6523b71fc-dirty)"
guest-os = "NA"
guest-arch = "NA"
description = """I want to try windows spice-client / virt-viewer.exe (v11.0.256) instead of gtk client.  
Windows spice client virtviewer won't start like it does under Linux.  
The error message indicaes that the spice-server itself failed to open spice sockets
The registry to handle ```spice://``` URI handler is configured."""
reproduce = """1. just run command"""
additional = """URI handler in registry is configure using a regestry import file ```spiceproto.reg```
```
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\spice]
"URL Protocol"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\spice\\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\\\Program Files\\\\VirtViewer v11.0-256\\\\bin\\\\remote-viewer.exe,1"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\spice\\Extensions]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\spice\\shell]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\spice\\shell\\open]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\spice\\shell\\open\\command] 
@="\\"C:\\\\Program Files\\\\VirtViewer v11.0-256\\\\bin\\\\remote-viewer.exe\\" \\"%1\\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\spice+unix]
"URL Protocol"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\spice+unix\\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\\\Program Files\\\\VirtViewer v11.0-256\\\\bin\\\\remote-viewer.exe,1"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\spice+unix\\Extensions]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\spice+unix\\shell]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\spice+unix\\shell\\open]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\spice+unix\\shell\\open\\command] 
@="\\"C:\\\\Program Files\\\\VirtViewer v11.0-256\\\\bin\\\\remote-viewer.exe\\" \\"%1\\""
```
This URI handler is working, and can be seen to work by typing ```spice://abcdefg``` in firefox."""