[Spice-devel] problem with spice connecting to multiple monitors

[Uri Lublin]

On 07/16/2013 06:09 AM, stonefly128 wrote:
> Dear spice development team:
> I'm asking for help on the spice when using two monitors in kvm 
> virtual machines. This is my test environment:A redhat 6.2 x64_64 
> server with kvm;one virtual machine using windows xp sp3 OS with two 
> qxl graphics cards, the vm configuration file as follows:
>
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> Inside vm box, i have installed the spice-guest-tools-0.59.exe, and 
> following the website http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307873/en-us , i 
> configured one *primary monitor*and monitor 2 using the option 
> "*Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor*" .When I use spice 
> connecting to the vm, it will appear two spice windows, spice: 0 and 
> spice: 1.
> I can drag items across my screen onto alternate monitors, namely 
> spice: 1, but my problem is that my mouse is alway s mapped on the 
> primary monitor, it can not be mapped to monitor 2. So, how to 
> configure my spice when using multiple monitors in windows xp 
> kvmvirtual machines.
> Look forward to receiving your reply and thanks.

Hello stonefly128,

Try adding a virtio-serial device to your VM and a spice port, install 
virtio-serial driver
and make sure spice vdagent is running.

Uri.