# SPICE support was dropped in RHEL 9! **URL:** \ **Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\ **Created:** [July 27, 2022, 4:22am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/spice-support-was-dropped-in-rhel-9/6753 "2022-07-27T04:22:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kinu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ec8ea/32.png) [@kinu](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/kinu)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2025, 11:35am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/spice-support-was-dropped-in-rhel-9/6753/41 "2025-05-05T11:35:08Z")
Hello I’m facing this error: `Error: Failed instance creation: Failed creating instance record: Instance type "virtual-machine" is not supported on this server: QEMU failed to run feature checks` when trying to create/launch a desktop VM in incus. I have incus 6.12 and spice-gtk-tools installed from the @ligenix repository in Rocky 9.5, and made `sudo ln -s /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64` because incus was asking for /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86\_64 What am I doing wrong? ---
**Author:** ![kinu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ec8ea/32.png) [@kinu](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/kinu)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 10:42am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/spice-support-was-dropped-in-rhel-9/6753/42 "2025-05-09T10:42:19Z")
So I’ve been searching out here, and find this: > **[Launching or starting a VM fails with "... QEMU failed to run feature checks"...](https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/incus/-/issues/6)** > > Description: Launching a new or starting an existing VM fails (since Incus 6.3) with: Error: Failed instance creation:... that proposes changes in incus servicel file Change `Environment=INCUS_OVMF_PATH=/usr/share/ovmf/x64` to `Environment=INCUS_EDK2_PATH=/usr/share/ovmf/x64` that changes the beaviour. Now I can create the VM, but got an error when trying to start it: ```auto Error: Failed to run: forklimits limit=memlock:unlimited:unlimited fd=3 fd=4 -- /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -S -name mydesktop -uuid 79589d61-655e-4123-8120-64de969d6b49 -daemonize -cpu host,hv_passthrough -nographic -serial chardev:console -nodefaults -no-user-config -sandbox on,obsolete=deny,elevateprivileges=allow,spawn=allow,resourcecontrol=deny -readconfig /run/incus/mydesktop/qemu.conf -spice unix=on,disable-ticketing=on,addr=/run/incus/mydesktop/qemu.spice -pidfile /run/incus/mydesktop/qemu.pid -D /var/log/incus/mydesktop/qemu.log -smbios type=2,manufacturer=LinuxContainers,product=Incus -run-with user=nobody: qemu-system-x86_64: -spice unix=on,disable-ticketing=on,addr=/run/incus/mydesktop/qemu.spice: There is no option group 'spice' : signal: segmentation fault (core dumped) ``` Anyone can help? ---
**Author:** ![kinu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ec8ea/32.png) [@kinu](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/kinu)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 11:47am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/spice-support-was-dropped-in-rhel-9/6753/43 "2025-05-09T11:47:06Z")
Ok. Got it working! I need to install complete thing from @ligenix repository (basically, follow instructions and install virt-manager). So ```auto dnf install virt-manager dnf install incus systemctl edit --full incus.service ``` and change `Environment=INCUS_OVMF_PATH=/usr/share/edk2/ovmf` to `Environment=INCUS_EDK2_PATH=/usr/share/edk2ovmf` then `systemctl restart incus` init the incus instance and you can launch and access desktop VMs! ---
**Author:** ![ligenix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/ligenix/32/1285_2.png) [@ligenix](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/ligenix)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 7:25pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/spice-support-was-dropped-in-rhel-9/6753/44 "2025-05-12T19:25:10Z")
Hello kinu, I was offline from my laptop this weekend and a lot busy at work these days. I added incus to this repository when Michael Stauber from Adventurine asked me to enable virtio-9p in qemu for incus support. Since then, I’ve been trying to maintain incus as best I can, so any help is welcome. I just released a new version that fixes the path regression Environment=INCUS\_EDK2\_PATH=/usr/share/edk2ovmf and adds a symlink to /usr/bin/qemu-system-%{\_arch} ---
**Author:** ![kinu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ec8ea/32.png) [@kinu](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/kinu)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 11:58am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/spice-support-was-dropped-in-rhel-9/6753/45 "2025-05-14T11:58:02Z")
Thank you very much! ---
**Author:** ![scaprile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@scaprile](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/scaprile)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/spice-support-was-dropped-in-rhel-9/6753/46 "2025-05-18T00:18:36Z")
Just decided and moved from Centos Stream 8 to Rocky 8 and then to Rocky 9. Now getting ready to have my old VMs working, met this: ```auto Problem 2: glib2-2.68.4-14.el9_4.1.i686 from @System does not belong to a distupgrade repository - cannot install both glib2-2.69.3-1.el9.x86_64 from copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:ligenix:enterprise-qemu-spice and glib2-2.68.4-14.el9_4.1.x86_64 from @System - cannot install both glib2-2.68.4-14.el9_4.1.x86_64 from baseos and glib2-2.69.3-1.el9.x86_64 from copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:ligenix:enterprise-qemu-spice - cannot install the best update candidate for package glib2-2.68.4-14.el9_4.1.x86_64 - cannot install the best update candidate for package glib2-2.68.4-14.el9_4.1.i686 ``` Don’t know how critical is glib2 here so I didn’t dare to skip this package yet. ---
**Author:** ![ligenix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/ligenix/32/1285_2.png) [@ligenix](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/ligenix)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/spice-support-was-dropped-in-rhel-9/6753/47 "2025-05-18T20:05:54Z")
`Problem 2: glib2-2.68.4-14.el9_4.1.i686 from @System does not belong to a distupgrade repository` Hello, try the following dnf command, and if it is correct, run the dnf install again: `dnf remove glib2-2.68.4-14.el9_4.1.i686` ---
**Author:** ![scaprile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@scaprile](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/scaprile)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 10:05pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/spice-support-was-dropped-in-rhel-9/6753/48 "2025-05-18T22:05:03Z")
Thx, was delayed fixing networking… I have disabled NetworkManager ages ago since CentOS 7 to have my VMs talk to their host and now interfaces are disabled if not managed… So the i686 package was causing that… I don’t remember why I have that, I still have old 32-bit packages around so I’ll eventually know if it is necessary, Thanks a lot. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/1X/91b7219eec10e30013422e4df76c1d898711a5d5.svg) [@system](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2025, 10:05pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/spice-support-was-dropped-in-rhel-9/6753/49 "2025-07-17T22:05:49Z")
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