[Spice-devel] [video-qxl 2/2] Default to only one head, not 4.

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 01/23/2013 06:27 PM, Jeremy White wrote:
>> You not getting this to work is not your fault, but ours :)  It is a
>> pretty new feature lacking documentation.
>>
>> First of all you will need Fedora-18 (preferably fully up2date with
>> all updates from updates-testing) as both host and guest!
>
> I have thus far resisted the need to build an entirely new machine just
> to do spice development; I would really like to avoid that if at all
> possible.
>
> Any chance you can specify the requirements in terms of software
> versions so I can try to assemble the equivalent, from source, or from
> Debian experimental?
>
> I currently have qemu-1.3 + spice server 0.12-2, with spice client gtk
> and virt-viewer from git tip of yesterday.  I am running a fully up to
> date fc18 guest.

Hmm that should be new enough I think...

> I launch qemu from the command line, adding the -global qxl-vga.revision
> flag as you suggested.  I still don't see the extra displays show up.
>
> Anything else?

What is your qemu cmdline ? Have you enabled:
1) spice as display protocol (-spice)
2) qxl as vga adapter (-vga qxl)
3) The spice agent chardevice (see below)

Also see:
http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/11686.html

Regards,

Hans