Re: [Spice-devel] [video-qxl 2/2] Default to only one head, not 4.

2013-01-23 Thread Jeremy White
You not getting this to work is not your fault, but ours :) It is a pretty new feature lacking documentation. First of all you will need Fedora-18 (preferably fully up2date with all updates from updates-testing) as both host and guest! I have thus far resisted the need to build an entirely

Re: [Spice-devel] [video-qxl 2/2] Default to only one head, not 4.

2013-01-23 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 01/23/2013 06:27 PM, Jeremy White wrote: You not getting this to work is not your fault, but ours :) It is a pretty new feature lacking documentation. First of all you will need Fedora-18 (preferably fully up2date with all updates from updates-testing) as both host and guest! I have

Re: [Spice-devel] [video-qxl 2/2] Default to only one head, not 4.

2013-01-23 Thread Jeremy White
Aha! I built a qxl_driver from git tip, put that on my fc18 guest, and now I see 4 displays in my drop down list. (I had mistakenly presumed that by up to date fc18 guest, you wanted those stock qxl packages, but the fc18 qxl driver is fairly old). Cheers, Jeremy

Re: [Spice-devel] [video-qxl 2/2] Default to only one head, not 4.

2013-01-23 Thread Jeremy White
BTW reading patch 1 again, I wonder what exactly it tries to solve, since currently when using spice with qemu (no experience with x-spice) you can already set modes 1024x768 without problems. Alright, I've spent my day relearning this code, and feel I have a better grasp. The issue is

Re: [Spice-devel] [video-qxl 2/2] Default to only one head, not 4.

2013-01-22 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 01/21/2013 11:26 PM, Jeremy White wrote: Hmm. I've been making sure that no change I make impacts the gtk spice client connecting to a qemu fedora 17 guest. But I don't see that option there. I'll see about using remote viewer instead. Did you see an actual problem using the patch,

Re: [Spice-devel] [video-qxl 2/2] Default to only one head, not 4.

2013-01-22 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, Note I'm currently working on a related problem, which I plan to fix in a way which interacts with patch 1 of this series. See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894421 And specifically: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=894421#c7 Actually let me copy and paste that

Re: [Spice-devel] [video-qxl 2/2] Default to only one head, not 4.

2013-01-22 Thread Alon Levy
BTW reading patch 1 again, I wonder what exactly it tries to solve, since currently when using spice with qemu (no experience with x-spice) you can already set modes 1024x768 without problems. This will teach me to set down a patch for a few months while I work on other things :-(.

Re: [Spice-devel] [video-qxl 2/2] Default to only one head, not 4.

2013-01-21 Thread Jeremy White
Hmm. I've been making sure that no change I make impacts the gtk spice client connecting to a qemu fedora 17 guest. But I don't see that option there. I'll see about using remote viewer instead. Did you see an actual problem using the patch, or is just clear to you that there will be one?

Re: [Spice-devel] [video-qxl 2/2] Default to only one head, not 4.

2013-01-11 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 01/12/2013 12:04 AM, Jeremy White wrote: On 01/11/2013 04:02 PM, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi, On 01/11/2013 10:34 PM, Jeremy White wrote: This makes the default display not stretch for 4096x768. Hmm this seems to expose a problem with your previous patch then, as this second patch is