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feat(quickemu): enable local SPICE over Unix sockets with VirGL#1851

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feat(quickemu): enable local SPICE over Unix sockets with VirGL#1851
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  • Use Unix sockets for local --display spice to allow GL/VirGL acceleration
  • Use egl-headless backend to provide GL context for virtio-gpu-gl; do not
    enable SPICE gl=on (avoids blocking QEMU main loop)
  • Add -vga none for SPICE modes to prevent duplicate scanouts
  • Update start_viewer() to support spice+unix:// and spice://localhost:port
    connection modes for spicy and remote-viewer clients
  • Clean up Unix socket (.sock) files alongside existing .spice file cleanup

Provides local GL-accelerated guest 3D via VirGL while keeping remote access
over TCP unchanged.

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  • New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)

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  • I have performed a self-review of my code
  • I have tested my code in common scenarios and confirmed there are no regressions

- Use Unix sockets for local --display spice to allow GL/VirGL
acceleration
- Use egl-headless backend to provide GL context for virtio-gpu-gl; do
not
  enable SPICE gl=on (avoids blocking QEMU main loop)
- Add -vga none for SPICE modes to prevent duplicate scanouts
- Update start_viewer() to support spice+unix:// and
spice://localhost:port
  connection modes for spicy and remote-viewer clients
- Clean up Unix socket (.sock) files alongside existing .spice file
cleanup

Provides local GL-accelerated guest 3D via VirGL while keeping remote
access
over TCP unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Martin Wimpress <martin@wimpress.org>
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No issues found across 1 file

Confidence score: 5/5

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@flexiondotorg flexiondotorg merged commit ac4b75f into master Jan 27, 2026
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@flexiondotorg flexiondotorg deleted the spice branch January 27, 2026 15:20
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