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Can't run an arch linux VM on arch linux. Call to qemu-system-x86_64 fails with: There is no option group 'spice'

Description:

I just created an issue here https://github.com/lxc/incus/issues/414 in case it's an issue on the incus end.

It looks like a similar to what I found in the old arch bugs: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/69582

I'm not sure if it's how arch compiles qemu, or an incus or upstream qemu issue.

I was running arch VMs with LXD fine up until recently when the arch images disappeared from LXD mirrors and had to switch to incus.

Additional info:

Steps to reproduce:

sudo pacman -S incus
sudo systemctl start incus
sudo systemctl start incus.socket
sudo systemctl start incus-user.socket
sudo incus admin init  # defaults except created a pool with dir backend
sudo usermod -v 1000000-1000999999 -w 1000000-1000999999 root
incus profile unset default raw.idmap  # found from https://wiki.debian.org/Incus will be fixed in the 0.5 release. 

VMNAME=archvm
incus init images:archlinux "$VMNAME" --vm \
    -c security.secureboot=false \
    -c limits.memory=16GiB \
    -c limits.cpu=$(nproc) \
    -c boot.autostart=false
incus start "$VMNAME"
Edited by Andy
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