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feat(quickemu): enable SPICE display reconnection for running VMs #1847

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13 changes: 13 additions & 0 deletions quickemu
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Expand Up @@ -165,10 +165,12 @@ function kill_vm() {
if [ -z "${VM_PID}" ]; then
echo " - ${VMNAME} is not running."
rm -f "${VMDIR}/${VMNAME}.pid"
rm -f "${VMDIR}/${VMNAME}.spice"
elif [ -n "${VM_PID}" ]; then
if kill -9 "${VM_PID}" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
echo " - ${VMNAME} (${VM_PID}) killed."
rm -f "${VMDIR}/${VMNAME}.pid"
rm -f "${VMDIR}/${VMNAME}.spice"
else
echo " - ${VMNAME} (${VM_PID}) was not killed."
fi
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1409,6 +1411,7 @@ function configure_audio() {

function configure_ports() {
echo -n "" > "${VMDIR}/${VMNAME}.ports"
rm -f "${VMDIR}/${VMNAME}.spice"

if [ -z "${ssh_port}" ]; then
# Find a free port to expose ssh to the guest
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1472,6 +1475,7 @@ function configure_ports() {
echo " - SPICE: Enabled"
else
echo "spice,${spice_port}" >> "${VMDIR}/${VMNAME}.ports"
echo "${spice_port}" > "${VMDIR}/${VMNAME}.spice"
echo -n " - SPICE: On host: spicy --title \"${VMNAME}\" --port ${spice_port}"
if [ "${guest_os}" != "macos" ] && [ -n "${PUBLIC}" ]; then
echo -n " --spice-shared-dir ${PUBLIC}"
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -2115,6 +2119,7 @@ function vm_boot() {
else
echo " - Process: ERROR! Failed to start ${VM} as ${VMNAME}"
rm -f "${VMDIR}/${VMNAME}.pid"
rm -f "${VMDIR}/${VMNAME}.spice"
echo && cat "${VMDIR}/${VMNAME}.log"
exit 1
fi
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -2732,6 +2737,7 @@ if [ -n "${VM}" ] && [ -e "${VM}" ]; then
#VM is not running, cleaning up.
VM_PID=""
rm -f "${VMDIR}/${VMNAME}.pid"
rm -f "${VMDIR}/${VMNAME}.spice"
fi
fi

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -2795,6 +2801,13 @@ else
echo "${VMNAME}"
echo " - Process: Already running ${VM} as ${VMNAME} (${VM_PID})"
parse_ports_from_file
# Auto-detect SPICE if .spice file exists and display is a default GUI type
if [ -r "${VMDIR}/${VMNAME}.spice" ]; then
if [ "${display}" == "sdl" ] || [ "${display}" == "cocoa" ] || [ "${display}" == "gtk" ]; then
display="spice"
spice_port=$(cat "${VMDIR}/${VMNAME}.spice")
fi
fi
start_viewer
fi

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