[Spice-devel] [RFC PATCH spice 1/2] QXL interface: add functions to identify monitors in the guest

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> > When using qemu_console_get_head() it doesn't work correctly, it would
> > use the qxl card's data.  It would work if spice-server would filter the
> > list to only include the entries for the given display channel before
> > calling the ->client_monitors_config() callback.  But it doesn't, we get
> > the complete set.
> 
> That's why I said is a bug, IMHO it should.

Hmm, this should be easily detectable on qemu side I think.  If
num_of_monitors (for a non-qxl card) is > 1, then we have an old,
non-filtering spice-server.  If num_of_monitors == 1, then it is a new,
filtering spice-server.  Or a single-head channel configuration, in
which case it doesn't matter whenever it filters or not.

So this should be fixable without causing too much compatibility pain.

cheers,
  Gerd