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Proxmox - SPICE Client setup for MacOS

Proxmox - SPICE client setup for MacOS

  1. 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
  2. Once that's installed should be able make a call remote-viewer with a pve-spice.vv file downloaded from proxmox web interface

    remote-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.

  1. Launch Automator and select Application from the dropdown list, when prompted.

    Screen Shot 2021-07-15 at 1 39 31 PM

  2. 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.

    Screen Shot 2021-07-15 at 2 13 01 PM

  3. 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.

    Screen Shot 2022-02-16 at 11 26 22 AM

  4. In Chrome, click on the small arrow on the list of downloads at the bottom, and select "Always open files of this type"

    Screen Shot 2021-07-15 at 2 02 46 PM

  5. 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

    Screen Shot 2021-07-15 at 2 05 57 PM

    Screen Shot 2021-07-15 at 4 42 21 PM

Enjoy!

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e
# needs pve-manager >= 3.1-44
usage() {
echo "Usage: $0 [-u <string>] [-p <string>] vmid [node [proxy]]"
echo
echo "-u username. Default root@pam"
echo "-p password. Default ''"
echo
echo "vmid: id for VM"
echo "node: Proxmox cluster node name"
echo "proxy: DNS or IP (use <node> as default)"
exit 1
}
PASSWORD=""
USERNAME=""
while getopts ":u:p:" o; do
case "${o}" in
u)
USERNAME="${OPTARG}"
;;
p)
PASSWORD="${OPTARG}"
;;
*)
usage
;;
esac
done
shift $((OPTIND-1))
if [[ -z "$PASSWORD" ]]; then
PASSWORD=""
fi
if [[ -z "$USERNAME" ]]; then
USERNAME='root@pam'
fi
DEFAULTHOST="$(hostname -f)"
# select VM
[[ -z "$1" ]] && usage
VMID="$1"
#[[ -z "$2" ]] && usage
NODE="${2:-$DEFAULTHOST}"
if [[ -z "$3" ]]; then
PROXY="$NODE"
else
PROXY="$3"
fi
NODE="${NODE%%\.*}"
DATA="$(curl -f -s -S -k --data-urlencode "username=$USERNAME" --data-urlencode "password=$PASSWORD" "https://$PROXY:8006/api2/json/access/ticket")"
echo "AUTH OK"
TICKET="${DATA//\"/}"
TICKET="${TICKET##*ticket:}"
TICKET="${TICKET%%,*}"
TICKET="${TICKET%%\}*}"
CSRF="${DATA//\"/}"
CSRF="${CSRF##*CSRFPreventionToken:}"
CSRF="${CSRF%%,*}"
CSRF="${CSRF%%\}*}"
curl -f -s -S -k -b "PVEAuthCookie=$TICKET" -H "CSRFPreventionToken: $CSRF" "https://$PROXY:8006/api2/spiceconfig/nodes/$NODE/qemu/$VMID/spiceproxy" -d "proxy=$PROXY" > $NODE-$VMID.vv
exec remote-viewer $NODE-$VMID.vv
@aanikolaeff
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All works fine on M2MAX except USB redirection. I got error "Could not redirect USB device: could not claim interface 0 (configuration 1): LIBUSB_ERROR_ACCESS (0)"

@fskale
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fskale commented Jul 18, 2024

I'm using the BETA macOS 15.0, it won't work. The command virt-viewer pve-spice.vv just gave me errors (remote-viewer:54950): virt-viewer-WARNING **: 02:45:03.484: (../src/virt-viewer-window.c:831):accel_key_to_keys: runtime check failed: ((accel_mods & ~(GDK_SHIFT_MASK | GDK_CONTROL_MASK | GDK_MOD1_MASK)) == 0) Totally have no idea WTF it is after 10 hours tweaking.

What version of gdk did you build remote-viewer with ?

@falconws
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Thanks very very usefull information

@byoung
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byoung commented Oct 16, 2024

I'm using the BETA macOS 15.0, it won't work. The command virt-viewer pve-spice.vv just gave me errors (remote-viewer:54950): virt-viewer-WARNING **: 02:45:03.484: (../src/virt-viewer-window.c:831):accel_key_to_keys: runtime check failed: ((accel_mods & ~(GDK_SHIFT_MASK | GDK_CONTROL_MASK | GDK_MOD1_MASK)) == 0) Totally have no idea WTF it is after 10 hours tweaking.

What version of gdk did you build remote-viewer with ?

I got the same error on MacOS 15.0.1

Here is my version of the only gdk package I could find in brew list.

$ brew info gdk-pixbuf
==> gdk-pixbuf: stable 2.42.12 (bottled)
Toolkit for image loading and pixel buffer manipulation
https://gtk.org
Installed
/usr/local/Cellar/gdk-pixbuf/2.42.12 (152 files, 3.3MB) *
  Poured from bottle using the formulae.brew.sh API on 2024-10-16 at 13:32:49
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/g/gdk-pixbuf.rb
License: LGPL-2.1-or-later
==> Dependencies
Build: docutils ✘, gettext ✔, gobject-introspection ✔, meson ✔, ninja ✔, pkg-config ✔
Required: glib ✔, jpeg-turbo ✔, libpng ✔, libtiff ✔, gettext ✔

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globalhuman commented Oct 28, 2024

I'm experiencing the same problem on MacOS 15.0.1

@lgzcoollg
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I got this warning and failed:

(remote-viewer:48032): virt-viewer-WARNING **: 10:42:12.312: (../src/virt-viewer-window.c:831):accel_key_to_keys: runtime check failed: ((accel_mods & ~(GDK_SHIFT_MASK | GDK_CONTROL_MASK | GDK_MOD1_MASK)) == 0)

@ThisIsJeron
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I guess some recent packages broke this - can't seem to connect with virt-viewer with the same errors as above

@timsonner
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I was getting this output. Fix included below…

(remote-viewer:1437): virt-viewer-WARNING **: 22:16:26.367: (../src/virt-viewer-window.c:831):accel_key_to_keys: runtime check failed: ((accel_mods & ~(GDK_SHIFT_MASK | GDK_CONTROL_MASK | GDK_MOD1_MASK)) == 0)
2024-11-07 22:16:26.509 remote-viewer[1437:17842] +[IMKClient subclass]: chose IMKClient_Legacy
objc[1439]: Class ResultReceiver is implemented in both /usr/local/Cellar/gtk+3/3.24.43/lib/libgtk-3.0.dylib (0x103a61e40) and /usr/local/Cellar/gtk4/4.16.5/lib/libgtk-4.1.dylib (0x111ed3318). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
objc[1439]: Class GtkApplicationQuartzDelegate is implemented in both /usr/local/Cellar/gtk+3/3.24.43/lib/libgtk-3.0.dylib (0x103a61e68) and /usr/local/Cellar/gtk4/4.16.5/lib/libgtk-4.1.dylib (0x111ed3340). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
objc[1439]: Class GNSMenuItem is implemented in both /usr/local/Cellar/gtk+3/3.24.43/lib/libgtk-3.0.dylib (0x103a61eb8) and /usr/local/Cellar/gtk4/4.16.5/lib/libgtk-4.1.dylib (0x111ed3390). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
objc[1439]: Class GNSMenu is implemented in both /usr/local/Cellar/gtk+3/3.24.43/lib/libgtk-3.0.dylib (0x103a61ee0) and /usr/local/Cellar/gtk4/4.16.5/lib/libgtk-4.1.dylib (0x111ed33b8). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
objc[1439]: Class FilterComboBox is implemented in both /usr/local/Cellar/gtk+3/3.24.43/lib/libgtk-3.0.dylib (0x103a61f58) and /usr/local/Cellar/gtk4/4.16.5/lib/libgtk-4.1.dylib (0x111ed3430). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
objc[1439]: Class gdkCoreCursor is implemented in both /usr/local/Cellar/gtk+3/3.24.43/lib/libgdk-3.0.dylib (0x102848688) and /usr/local/Cellar/gtk4/4.16.5/lib/libgtk-4.1.dylib (0x111ed3480). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.

FIX:
export GTK_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/gtk+3/3.24.43/lib
export GTK_PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/gtk4/4.16.5/lib

Exporting the paths fixed error and I was able to remote in.

@Spoolingturbo6
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Does it need https:// ?

Proxmox 8.2.4
Guest Win11
Remote MacOs 14.7.2
browser Safari 17.6

Error: Unable to connect ( Unsupported graphic type "http" )
Address format http://192.168.1.70:xxxx

Lately I just been using MICROSOFT REMOTE DESKTOP for MacOs to connect to my Windows Vm's.
It's OK but connecting drops a lot. and at random. without provocation

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