[Spice-devel] Arbitrary resolutions on Windows 8.1

[Christophe Fergeau]

Hey,

On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 10:32:34PM +0100, fabrox wrote:
> I'm currently moving my virtual machines from VirtualBox to
> QEMU/KVM/Spice and even though everything is working fine so far I'm
> missing a feature that is really important to me and I'm used to from
> VirtualBox - Automatic setting of arbitrary resoultions for Windows 8.1 virtual
> machines in windowed mode.
> 
> What I've found out on my own so far is that this is already possible
> with Spice for some OS but not yet for Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 and
> that the problem seems to be in vdagent.
> 
> There already exists a very detailed ticket on that
> problem in Red Hat Bugzilla:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895356
> It also includes a (allegedly) working patch:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1016319&action=diff
> 
> I would really like to try a patched version of vdagent to see if it
> works for me then but unfortunately I'm unable to make a working build
> of vdagent in VisualStudio 2015, thus I can not patch it on my own, and I
> have also not found a already patched version of it anywhere on the web.
> 
> Can someone please help?

Iirc I was not very successful trying that patch. I believe Sandy
(cc'ed) was working on it, hopefully she'll be able to give some status
on this.

Christophe
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