[soulofmischief]

> I wonder what would happen if you enabled the normal GTK qemu window (which for reference can of course be run in Xvnc in headless scenarios, my personal Xvnc preference being TigerVNC). I also wonder what would happen if you enabled SPICE and/or VNC with the GTK window enabled.

Me too. I'll report back within a few days.

> A better start point likely to produce more interesting/orientating info might be to run Firefox inside eg an openbox session, making absolutely sure no compositors are running (including xcompmgr etc). If you still get crashes in that type of scenario something's very broken.

I can look into this, too. And I'll provide virt-viewer logs but they haven't been helpful. I'll see what the other virt-related logs are saying.

> It I were serious about fixing this my first step would be building everything from source, one component at a time, verifying the issue is still present at each step; then, if everything's still crashing, pulling out good ol' printf

This was the advice given to me before from someone involved in the virt stack, and I started to do this but it turned into a lot of work just familiarizing myself with some things and I got sidetracked and eventually shelved it and just hoped it would eventually piss someone else off enough.

[exikyut]

> I'll report back within a few days.

Sure. I'll try to check this thread so often or so.