[Spice-devel] Multi-head Spice

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 04:18:12PM -0600, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 17:53 +0100, Christophe de Dinechin wrote:
> > I tried to setup a multi-head guest, but I’m having trouble getting
> > multiple displays to work correctly
> > 
> > For Jonathon, the part that I had trouble with was adding “heads =
> > ‘4’" to the video / QXL configuration. I don’t see it documented in
> > https://www.spice-space.org/spice-user-
> > manual.html#_multiple_monitor_support.
> 
> Yep, it's a fairly new feature. I'm working on additional multi-monitor 
> documentation and will be sure to include that.

Yep, we totally missed it when 'heads' support was added :( virt-manager
UI needs to be able to set this too..

> 
> > 
> > For Christophe F, what I get with the configuration file http://paste
> > bin.com/FEXbjaE3 is shown in the following picture https://redskincat
> > .wordpress.com/2017/02/27/learning-more-about-mesa/#jp-carousel-1224.
> > As far as I remember, this is pretty much a default configuration of
> > Fedora 25 after install from the live CD. If I understand correctly,
> > the difference with you is that I actually installed.
> > 
> > Does anybody else see this? If not, what could be wrong with my
> > setup?
> > 
> 
> I don't see anything obviously wrong with the configuration. If you
> close the spice client and immediately re-connect does it still show
> the same thing in both windows?
> 
> Can you capture the debug output of running virt-viewer with the --
> debug and --spice-debug options while you enable the second monitor?
> That might give a clue about what's happening.

Also, what window manager are you using on the client? The window
decorations don't look like default GNOME setup? The linux client is
running on bare-metal, not in an osx VM?

Christophe
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