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

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Edgar" <shweng at 163.com>
> To: uril at redhat.com
> Cc: "spice-devel" <spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 10:04:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] problem with spice connecting to multiple
> monitors

> 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:
> >
> <snipped>
> > 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.

> Dear Uri,
> I also found spice multiple monitors issue,it seems that it is
> related to spice client tools.
> I configurated the guest with 2 monitor support via oVirt-engine.
> when connect to guest use spicec, 2 monitor work well. when connect
> to same guest
> use spicy,only primary monitor works.
> I have glanced spice-gtk code, It seems that spice-gtk support
> multiple monitors.
> would you please help to check this iss ue.

You should be using remote-viewer (part of virt-viewer package) rather than older spicy/spicec

> My test environment
> oVirt engine:
> ovirt-engine-3.2.1
> spice-server:
> spice-server-0.12.0-12
> spicec:
> spice-client-0.12.2-3
> spicy:
> spice-gtk-tools-0.20
> spice-gtk-tools-0.19
> guest:
> Windows7 32bit
> WindowsXP sp3 32bit.

> Thanks.
> Best Regards

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