[Spice-devel] Multi-monitor support...

[Alon Levy]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 02:57:54PM -0700, Naga Mohan Pothula wrote:
> Thanks Emre,
> 
> Configured RHEL6.1 Beta Guest with "-device qxl" and "-vga qxl" for dual head support.
> I verified whether qxl devices are added to Guest or not. Both qxl devices are added .
> 
> 
> When I launched Guest in full screen mode, Guest is not spanning across the monitors i.e., it displays only in primary monitor.
> 
> Could you tell me what might be the problem for not spanning across the monitors when Guest is in full-screen mode?
> 
> 

What is your guest's OS? in windows you need to enable the second screen from display settings. In linux I don't think we support it yet.

> Thanks/Mohan. 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Emre Erenoglu <erenoglu at gmail.com>
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> Cc: "spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org" <spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 4:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] Multi-monitor support...
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Naga Mohan Pothula <nagamohan.pothula at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> >
> >
> >
> >I configured Guest with single head as below
> >
> >./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=$INST_ROOT/images/rhel61bt64.qcow,if=ide  -L pc-bios -soundhw ac97 -spice port=$SPICE_PORT,disable-ticketing -usbdevice tablet -enable-kvm -m 1024
> >-vga qxl
> >
> >
> >I need to setup multi-head environment. I have seen in the documentation that "-qxl <num>" to be configured with Qemu.
> >But if I remove "-vga qxl" and speicfy "-qxl 2", getting the error as "-qxl : invalid option".
> >
> >
> >I'm testing with Spice server/KVM v0.8 version.
> >
> >
> >
> >Can anyone please let me know the procedure to setup multi-head environment?
> >
> 
> There are entries in the mailing list (seach by my name) in April/May. Basically, first device should be defined with -device parameter and the consequent devices shall be defined as -vga qxl
> 
> you don't need to put any numbers. check this post: http://www.mail-archive.com/spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org/msg02960.html
> -- 
> Emre
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