[Spice-devel] Windows 7 dual-head - does it work?

Alon Levy alevy at redhat.com
Sat Jun 25 12:00:21 PDT 2011


On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:14:28AM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> After figuring out the syntax required to start a VM with multiple QXL
> devices, I've been able to get a "dual-head" Windows XP guest working.
> (This is on a fully updated Fedora 15 system, using spicec.)
> 
> I have been unable to get this to work with Windows 7 (32-bit).  It
> works fine in single-head mode, but I haven't been able to get the QXL
> driver to work with the second QXL device.  (Device Manager just shows
> it as a "Video Controller".)  I've tried various ways of installing the
> driver; none of them has worked, and I've experienced a number of blue
> screens during my attempts.
> 
> Has anyone got this working?  If so, how?
> 

Works fine here. What version of the driver are you using? have you built
it yourself or are you using the ones on spice-space (I hope we have some there :)?

> Alternatively, if this is known to not work, please tell me, so I can
> stop wasting my time.  ;-)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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