[Spice-devel] Arbitrary resolutions on Windows 8.1

[fabrox]

On 15-12-09 12:41:16, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> 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

Ok. Thought it might help. Hopefully Sandy have some good news about
it...

I've opened a ticket too, just in case you need it.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93304

Fabian
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