[Spice-devel] [linux/vd-agent v2 3/5] README: Remove non relevant features information

Victor Toso victortoso at redhat.com
Thu Feb 28 13:31:32 UTC 2019


Hi,

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 11:39:33PM +0100, Jakub Janku wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 6:04 PM Victor Toso <victortoso at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Victor Toso <me at victortoso.com>
> >
> > It is not relevant nowadays that *spicec* client was removed and even
> > monitors_config does not reach spice-vdagent in modern Guests.
> >
> Can't really evaluate this with my current knowledge of spice &
> monitor config handling.
> 
> The rest looks good to me.

Thanks! If no one has further comments, I'll be pushing this
tomorrow ;)

> 
> Cheers,
> Jakub
> 
> > Also add block quote for qemu cmdline and system's paths to make it
> > easier to copy-and-paste.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Victor Toso <victortoso at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  README.md | 34 +++++++++++++---------------------
> >  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
> > index 67a66a5..82a0103 100644
> > --- a/README.md
> > +++ b/README.md
> > @@ -23,36 +23,28 @@ Features:
> >  * Support for transferring files from the client to the agent
> >  * Full support for multiple displays using Xrandr, this requires a new
> >    enough xorg-x11-drv-qxl driver, as well as a new enough host.
> > -* Limited support for multiple displays using Xinerama, prerequisites:
> > -  * A new enough Xorg server: Fedora 17 or greater, for RHEL 6
> > -    xorg-x11-server-1.10.4-6.el6_2.3 or greater.
> > -  * A vm configured with multiple qxl devices
> > -  * A guest running the latest spice-vdagent
> > -  Then connect to the vm with the multiple monitor client which you want to
> > -  use it with using: "spicec --full-screen=auto-config" (or the user portal
> > -  equivalent). At this point the agent will write out a:
> > -  /run/spice-vdagentd/xorg.conf.spice file. With all the necessary magic
> > -  to get Xinerama working. Move this file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, then kill
> > -  Xorg so that it will get restarted and you should be good to go.
> > +* Limited support for multiple displays using Xinerama.
> >  * Limited support for setups with multiple Screens (multiple qxl devices each
> > -  mapped to their own screen), limitations:
> > - -Max one monitor per Screen / qxl device
> > - -All monitors / Screens must have the same resolution
> > - -No client -> guest resolution syncing
> > +  mapped to their own screen)
> >
> >  All vdagent communications on the guest side run over a single pipe which
> >  gets presented to the guest os as a virtio serial port.
> >
> >  Under windows this virtio serial port has the following name:
> > -\\\\.\\Global\\com.redhat.spice.0
> > +>>>
> > +    \\\\.\\Global\\com.redhat.spice.0
> > +>>>
> >
> >  Under Linux this virtio serial port has the following name:
> > -/dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0
> > +>>>
> > +    /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0
> > +>>>
> >
> >  To enable the virtio serial port you need to pass the following params on
> >  the qemu cmdline:
> >
> > --device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 \
> > --chardev spicevmc,name=vdagent,id=vdagent \
> > --device \
> > -virtserialport,nr=1,bus=virtio-serial0.0,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.spice.0
> > +>>>
> > +    -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 \
> > +    -chardev spicevmc,name=vdagent,id=vdagent \
> > +    -device virtserialport,nr=1,bus=virtio-serial0.0,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.spice.0
> > +>>>
> > --
> > 2.20.1
> >
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