Proxmox - SPICE client setup for MacOS
-
Install a working (and compiled) version of virt-viewer. You may view the homebrew package's upstream source on GitHub.
brew tap jeffreywildman/homebrew-virt-manager brew install virt-viewer
-
Once that's installed should be able make a call
remote-viewer
with a pve-spice.vv file downloaded from proxmox web interfaceremote-viewer pve-spice.vv
Check out this useful script for debugging. There are also several other cli tools like this one on GitHub that can be used to test the same sort of thing.
Improving Quality of Life
We want remote-viewer to automatically start and open the session when we double click the VM entry in proxmox. To do that we need to first create a small helper application.
-
Launch
Automator
and select Application from the dropdown list, when prompted. -
Search for
shell
and drag to the right. The contents:/usr/local/bin/remote-viewer "$@"
Make sure to select
as arguments
for passing the input. Save as~/Applications/pve-spice-launcher.app
. -
Locate a pve-spice.vv file and right click, and go to
Get Info -> Open With -> Change All
, look for the .app file you just made. -
In Chrome, click on the small arrow on the list of downloads at the bottom, and select "Always open files of this type"
-
If everything is set up correctly you should be able to double-click on the VM in the left pane of Proxmox and remote-viewer should start up and take care of the rest.
Note: the pve-spice.vv files will be automatically deleted by remote-viewer
Enjoy!
issue
Looks like the URIs of the
virt-manager
releases have changed, which has broken all the previously workingbrew
scripts.The
virt-viewer
package addresses invirt-viewer.rb
now return 404s. They have changed to a new structure, fromto
fix
This updated
virt-viewer.rb
works for me on an M1 mac running macOS Ventura 13.1:https://github.com/justinschuldt/homebrew-virt-manager
fyi @TheDragon44 @swhiteh4t