Bug#731668: gnome-boxes: Cannot connect to VM

[Dr Lawrence M Fox]

Package: gnome-boxes
Version: 46.1-3
Followup-For: Bug #731668
X-Debbugs-Cc: drfox at chicagovet.net

Dear Maintainer,


Apt update/upgrade to the latest packages for sid today, 8 July 2024.
Tried to run Boxes. Program opened without the VM which I had previously built
and has been running well. It did not show the VM. When I navigated to the VM
location (./local/share/gnome-boxes/images/win11) the file would not open.
Boxes was asking for a .qcow2 file. I reported to the debian forum and a reply
was given about how to change a qcow file to a .qcow2 file. I did the
conversion and tried to open the Win11.qcow2 file and there was a quick flash
and the program terminated.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.8.12-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-boxes depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.40.0-4+b2
ii  genisoimage                                  9:1.1.11-3.5
ii  libarchive13t64                              3.7.2-2.1
ii  libc6                                        2.38-12.1
ii  libcairo2                                    1.18.0-3+b1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0                          2.42.12+dfsg-1
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                              2.80.2-2
ii  libgtk-3-0t64                                3.24.42-1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                               238-5
ii  libhandy-1-0                                 1.8.3-1+b1
ii  libosinfo-1.0-0                              1.11.0-2+b1
ii  libosinfo-bin                                1.11.0-2+b1
ii  libportal-gtk3-1                             0.7.1-5+b1
ii  libportal1                                   0.7.1-5+b1
ii  libsoup-3.0-0                                3.4.4-5+b1
ii  libspice-client-glib-2.0-8                   0.42-2.1
ii  libspice-client-gtk-3.0-5                    0.42-2.1
ii  libusb-1.0-0                                 2:1.0.27-1
ii  libvirt-clients                              10.4.0-1
ii  libvirt-daemon                               10.4.0-1
ii  libvirt-glib-1.0-0                           5.0.0-2+b3
ii  libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0                          2.44.2-1+b1
ii  libxml2                                      2.12.7+dfsg-3
ii  tracker                                      3.7.3-1
ii  user-session-migration                       0.4.2

Versions of packages gnome-boxes recommends:
ii  qemu-system-x86  1:8.2.4+ds-2

Versions of packages gnome-boxes suggests:
pn  gnome-connections  <none>

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