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

[Emre Erenoglu]

Hi, this is by design. For each connection, you will get a window in the host.

You can change window sizes and guest resolution will change
automatically (with latest vdagent).

You can also full-screen each client window seperately. The only issue
I have with this is that, if I make both windows full screen, I can't
anymore switch between another host desktop and spice client windows
in full-screen. Window manager bindings like (ctrl-alt-left) don't
work, so I need to exit from full screen, click somewhere out of
client window to access host window manager bindings.


On 5/18/11, Naga Mohan Pothula <nagamohan.pothula at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks Alon,
>
> I'm testing with 64-bit RHEL 6.1 Beta and Win7 x64 Guests.
> Dual head functionality is not working with 64-bit RHEL 6.1 Beta and
> it is working with Win7 x64 but have noticed that it displays two Spice
> connection windows when window is in Restore mode.
> It would be good idea if we set second window visibility to hide when spice
> client window is in restore mode.
>
> Could you provide me suggestions for getting multi-head functionality with
> Linux guests?
>
>
> Regards,
> Mohan
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Alon Levy <alevy at redhat.com>
> To: Naga Mohan Pothula <nagamohan.pothula at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Emre Erenoglu <erenoglu at gmail.com>; "spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org"
> <spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 12:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] Multi-monitor support...
>
> 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>
>> To:
>> 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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