[Spice-devel] [Users] Full-size display Windows vs Fedora 20 guests

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Mon Feb 3 00:13:41 PST 2014


Hey,

On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 04:08:02PM +0100, Itamar Heim wrote:
> On 01/31/2014 09:16 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
> >On 01/31/2014 03:06 PM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>When I select View/Full Screen on a VM running a Windows guest, the
> >>display resolution automatically adjusts to fit the new canvas.
> >>
> >>However, when I do this on a VM running Fedora 20, it doesn't. Nor do
> >>I know how to query the new canvas size so that I can issue a manual
> >>xrandr command to fit it (without doing an ssh into the system and
> >>somehow finagling xwininfo to give me the size).
> >>
> >>In the guest I am running spice-vdagent-0.15.0-1, and restarting it
> >>has no effect. Shouldn't it be the one responsible for display
> >>optimization?

Some needed qxl/kms patches are missing in the fedora 20 kernels, using one
of the vanilla kernels from
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kernel_Vanilla_Repositories#Linux_vanilla_kernels_for_Fedora
helped in my testing (I picked the latest kernel-vanilla-mainline).

Christophe
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