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Bug
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Resolution: Can't Do
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Undefined
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rhel-8.9.0
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None
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None
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Moderate
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rhel-sst-virtualization
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ssg_virtualization
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None
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False
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None
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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None
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None
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x86_64
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None
SPICE has been deprecated since RHEL 8.3 and users are encouraged to move to VNC.
However, creating new VMs in with virt-install, as shown in the documentation as of today in RHEL 8.9 still comes up with SPICE configured.
Follow [1] and the result is:
# virt-install --name demo-guest3 --memory 2048 --vcpus 2 --os-variant rhel8.0 --import --disk /var/lib/libvirt/images/image.qcow2 # virsh dumpxml demo-guest3 | grep graphics <graphics type='spice' port='5900' autoport='yes' listen='127.0.0.1'> </graphics>
Probably not a good idea to change a default in 8.9.z, but could you please evaluate changing the defaults in 8.10 to VNC? The less VMs a customer has with SPICE the better, especially in late RHEL8 lifecycle, as the upgrade to 9 has proven to be problematic due to SPICE removal.
Alternatively we need to change the entire documentation to suggest --graphics vnc.
[1]https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/configuring_and_managing_virtualization/getting-started-with-virtualization-in-rhel-8_configuring-and-managing-virtualization#creating-virtual-machines-using-the-command-line-interface_assembly_creating-virtual-machines