[Spice-devel] Multiple qxl displays from the command-line.

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Tue Mar 11 04:05:56 PDT 2014


Hey,

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:23:40AM +0100, David Jaša wrote:
> What is your guest OS? The invocation differs for Linux and Windows, for
> linux, you use just one device with big enough RAM:
> -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.ram_size=134217728
> 
> for windows guests, you should use multiple qxl devices:
> -vga qxl -device qxl [-device qxl [-device qxl]]
> 
> BTW, based on libvirt-generated qemu CLIs on my Fedora 20, it seems that
> this is the current format:
> -device qxl-vga,ram_size=134217728,vram_size=33554432
> and
> -device qxl-vga,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=33554432 -device qxl-vga,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=33554432 -device qxl-vga,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=33554432 -device qxl-vga,ram_size=67108864,vram_size=33554432

Fwiw, there is basic documentation for this at
http://people.freedesktop.org/~teuf/spice-doc/html/ch02s07.html

Patches welcome if this should be improved ;) (the source files are in
spice.git/docs/manual)

Christophe
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