[Spice-devel] Ultra Wide resolution

[Uri Lublin]

On 06/08/2017 10:52 AM, Pavel Grunt wrote:
> 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.

Specifically, try to enable fullscreen-mode via remote-viewer's
menu View->FullScreen.

Uri.

> 
> 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
>>>
>>>