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

[Frediano Ziglio]

> 
> 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
> 

Sorry, why fixing in Qemu is the bug is in spice-server?
I really don't follow your reasoning.
For me Qemu should not change at all and spice-server should
do the filtering. Is this not fixing everything?

Frediano