[Spice-devel] Ultra Wide resolution

[Pavel Grunt]

On Wed, 2017-06-07 at 14:29 -0300, guidugli at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Uri and Pavel,
> 
> Sorry for the delay but I was really busy at work in the past days
> and
> I wanted to play a bit with the settings and make sure I am not
> doing
> some mistake. So, I did install the latest vdagent and my VM is set
> like below:
> <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='16384' heads='1'
> primary='yes'/>
> 
> If I try to change the resolution of the VM, I can change to
> 2560x1440,
> or 2560x1600 but there is no 2560x1080 mode available.
> 
> I believe that the problem is that this mode is not listed in the
> qxl/vdagent driver. 

Why do you need to do it manually? The guest will adjust automatically
  if you use remote-viewer or virt-viewer to connect to it.

Do you have the latest spice guest tools?

Pavel

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Carlos
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2017-05-22 at 11:34 +0300, Uri Lublin wrote:
> > On 05/22/2017 10:59 AM, Pavel Grunt wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Sat, 2017-05-20 at 20:18 -0300, guidugli at gmail.com wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I have an ultra wide monitor that has max resolution of
> > > > 2560x1080. I
> > > > use KVM + Spice QXL on all VMs. Unfortunately, I cannot use
> > > > this
> > > > resolution on my virtual machines. Since I can reach this
> > > > resolution
> > > > if
> > > > I use GPU passthrough, I believe the limitation is in spice.
> > > > 
> > > > If my suspicion is correct, how do I add this resolution?
> > > 
> > > you must install the latest spice vdagent and set qxl memory
> > > parameters.
> > > 
> > > For more details see:
> > > https://www.spice-space.org/multiple-monitors.html
> > > 
> > > Pavel
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just want to add that by default (64 MB ram (Bar0)
> > and 16MB vgamem) this resolution should be supported
> > and that if you change to fullscreen mode (and
> > spice-vdagent is running on the guest) then Spice
> > should automatically change the guest resolution to fit
> > your monitor.
> > 
> > Uri.
> > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Thank you,
> > > > 
> > > > Carlos
> > 
> >