[Spice-devel] 2K/4K resolutions not available?

[Mike]

Hi Gerd,

	I'm already specifying the following command line options, increasing 
the video memory was the first thing I tried, which didn't make a 
difference:

qxl-vga,id=video0,ram_size=134217728,vram_size=134217728,vgamem_mb=32

Thanks.

On 06/11/2015 11:04 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Do, 2015-06-11 at 08:58 -0700, Mike wrote:
>> Hi Christophe,
>>
>> 	I was using just "spicec" as the viewer in full screen mode, but trying
>> remote-viewer doesn't seem to make any difference (full-screen or
>> windowed mode), it just scales the guest display (and results in blurry
>> text) and doesn't actually change the resolution on the guest side. I
>> checked and spice-vdagent/spice-vdagentd are running in the guest as
>> well and the log shows connections to it being made...
>>
>> Using the script Gerd posted to force xrandr to change the resolution
>> does work for a few minutes, but as soon as I try to launch some
>> applications like Libreoffice Writer it crashes X immediately. It also
>> seems to cause all sorts of other strange issues with the window manager
>> (title bars disappear and reappear, etc...)
>
> Try assign more memory to the qxl device.  For starters try double both
> ram and vram (64m by default, try 128m instead).
>
> HTH,
>    Gerd
>
>

-- 
Mike