[Spice-devel] Fedora 17 Guests for Desktop Virtualization

[Kevin Daly]

Hi Nahum,

This may be a bit of a strange problem, I've done some experimenting and
I've found out that this only happens when the Desktop environment that the
Spice Client is running on is KDE and the bottom panel on that desktop is
set to autohide. So it's not really a problem with the Spice client, but a
KDE problem. So it's KDE Host running a Virtual KDE desktop with the Spice
Client, where the host KDE panel at the bottom is set to autohide.. Hope
that makes sense.

Run the same thing with a GNOME 3 Desktop running the Spice client  to a
KDE4 virtual desktop and everything works fine. So it has something to do
with the autohide property on the KDE desktop.

Sorry about the false alarm here.


On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Nahum Shalman <nshalman at elys.com> wrote:

> Below I've pasted a stripped down version of a kickstart file I used to
> get Fedora 17 working as a spice VM.
> (original is at http://www.shalman.org/spice/**fedora17.ks<http://www.shalman.org/spice/fedora17.ks>
> )
>
> It gave me a working KDE VM.
>
> A plain install of Fedora 17 seemed to freeze for me, but I haven't done
> any digging into the differences between that plain install and the stuff
> in this kickstart file (modified from an older version for Fedora 16).
>
> Kevin, perhaps you could give this kickstart file (or the full original) a
> try and see if that helps (the install will still prompt for a few details)?
>
> As an aside, it might be interesting for there to be a yum group that
> installs all the right packages for a VM that uses spice so that someday
> one could run "yum groupinstall spicevm" or put "@spicevm" in a kickstart
> file and have everything "Just Work"...
>
> -Nahum
>
> --------------
>
> install
> url --url=http://mirrors.us.**kernel.org/fedora/releases/17/**
> Fedora/x86_64/os/<http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora/releases/17/Fedora/x86_64/os/>
> reboot
> lang en_US.UTF-8
> keyboard us
> network --onboot yes --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6
> authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512
> selinux --disabled
> firewall --disabled
>
> repo --name="Fedora 17" --baseurl=http://mirrors.us.**
> kernel.org/fedora/releases/17/**Fedora/x86_64/os/<http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora/releases/17/Fedora/x86_64/os/>
> repo --name="Fedora 17 updates" --baseurl=http://mirrors.us.**
> kernel.org/fedora/updates/17/**x86_64/<http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/fedora/updates/17/x86_64/>
>
> %packages
> @Base
> @Fonts
> @Core
> @online-docs
> xorg-x11-drv-qxl
> xorg-x11-drv-evdev
> spice-vdagent
> kdm
> konsole
> kde-settings-pulseaudio
> kdemultimedia-kmix
> kwin-gles
> xorg-x11-xauth
> xorg-x11-xinit
> xorg-x11-utils
> xorg-x11-server-Xorg
> xorg-x11-server-utils
> xorg-x11-fonts-*
> xorg-x11-font-utils
> firstboot
> smolt-firstboot
> less
> vim
> openssh-clients
> openssh-server
> pulseaudio
> phonon-backend-gstreamer
> libusb*
> usbutils*
> usbredir*
> %end
>



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