[Spice-devel] multi monitor support not quite working

Marc-André Lureau mlureau at redhat.com
Tue Aug 20 07:10:46 PDT 2013


Hi

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> Hi All,
> 
> I'm trying to get two displays working.  Host and guest are fully
> updated Fedora 19 (x86_64).
> 
> When I open the second display using the menu in remote-viewer, it comes
> up black.
> 
> As soon as I run "xrandr" (with NO options) from the command line, the
> desktop extends to twice the width, but what appears in the second
> monitor is the ENTIRE desktop, i.e. the contents of both "outputs" in
> xrandr speak.  xrandr output shows the correct values.
> 
> If I continue opening and closing displays using remote-viewer menu it
> seems there's always one which is "the entire desktop", and the next one
> seems ok.
> 
> If I attempt to change video mode (using xrandr) on any of the displays,
> spice "hangs" (all connections say waiting for connection to graphics
> server) and CPU utilization goes to 100% in guest. A reboot of the guest
> is necessary to resolve this.
> 
> Also, actual mouse position is offset up and left from displayed mouse
> position.
> 
> Any ideas to get this working?

I suppose your guest is configured with a single qxl device.

It could be recent regression due to KVM usage. Could you try with older xorg-x11-drv-qxl (0.1.0)

If it's recent regression, I suggest to open a bug.


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