[Spice-devel] Updated Windows QXL driver needed for SPICE 0.8?

Arnon Gilboa agilboa at redhat.com
Mon Mar 14 00:26:58 PDT 2011


I guess they are outdated/broken in some way. We will build & upload a 
zip later today.

Ian Pilcher wrote:
> I am running Fedora 15 Alpha, which has been updated to SPICE 0.8.0.
> This appears to cause a "black screen of death" when Windows (7 or XP)
> loads the QXL driver from qxl-win32-0.6.1.zip.  spicec simply shows a
> black screen, and there's nothing to do but kill the guest.
>
> Downgrading the SPICE packages to the 0.7.x versions makes things work.
>
> Are there protocol changes in 0.8 that make a new QXL driver necessary?
>
> Thanks!
>
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