[Spice-devel] [Announce] spice-gtk 0.6

[Alon Levy]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:33:12PM +0100, Peter Daum wrote:
> --- Alon Levy <alevy at redhat.com> schrieb am Mo, 23.5.2011:
> 
> > Regarding the 0x0 size - did you try a recent seabios?
> 
> Originally, I used the bios that is included in the qemu from your git repository. I just tried it with the newest seabios version instead - no difference.
> 
> > Regarding the driver - if you are not getting more modes
> > (resolutions better then 2000 width and bit depth up to 32)
> > then something is wrong. Device manager shows the device
> > with the new driver without a exclamation sign?
> 
> Windows is perfectly happy with the driver. It shows a "Red Hat QXL GPU" in PCI slot 2 with driver version 1.4.1.0. Unfortunately, it seems to think that the only resolution supported by this device is 640x480/16.
> If I don't use the QXL win32 driver, It will show the exclamation mark but basically work in all modes (but of course with no performance improvements over the cirrus vga ...)
> 
> > In general you need to run with "-spice ..." and not just with "-vga
> > qxl", otherwise you won't be using spice at all, just the paravirtual
> > device (and it won't give you anything special by itself).
> 
> I know - I only wanted to point out that both issues do not only occur when the display is rendered via spice but also in the default SDL window, so I guess, the problem must be in the qemu qxl (or the win32 driver?).
> 
> As said, I use the sources recommended on spice-space.org including the qemu from there (git://git.freedesktop.org/git/spice/qemu), because I thought that this has been specifically adapted for spice. Should I rather use the newest "vanilla" qemu from qemu.org?
> 

There should be no difference between the two, the git repo you point to is now our staging area (at least the official, there are also per developer), but since not too long ago it's all upstream as well, so you can use the official qemu repository too.

What service pack do you have? I'm using winxp SP3. I seem to recall something like what you are describing, but not with SP3.

> Regards,
>                        Peter
> 
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