[Spice-devel] spice 6.0

[Alexander Larsson]

On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 09:10 +0200, lensch at opensourcemedia.de wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am experimenting with the newest version of Spice (6.0) on Fedora14 
> alpha. I managed to get everything installed fine via yum but my qemu 
> doesn't seem to work with the qxl device.
> 
> If I start it like this:
> 
> qemu xp.img -usbdevice tablet -soundhw ac97 -vga qxl -m 3200 -spice 
> port=5930,disable-ticketing -enable-kvm
> 
> and start the client like this:
> 
> spicec -h localhost -p 5930
> 
> i get eventually a tiny little window for the client which I cannot 
> maximize or toggle fullscreen.

Yes, this is a bug in the qemu spice integration (bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634535 waiting for update to
reach repos).

For now, to work around it, pass "-global qxl.revision=2" on the qemu
command line.

Sorry about this.

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