Wow, resurrecting a thread from 2013 with my email address from my previous employer. Okay, let's jump in.
On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 3:47 AM, Fred Liu <fred_...@issi.com> wrote: > We noticed that GUI since SL7.2 did not work with the low resolution > 1024x768 which is the default-detected resolution from SmartOS vnc server. > That might have to do with the default amount of video memory QEMU gives the VM. You may be able to change that with qemu_extra_opts. I've only ever done that to the QXL device rather than the default VGA device so I don't know what the variable you'd need to set would be. Is there a way to configure the vnc to run in higher resolution like > 1280x1024? And I don't need to hack Linux to forcedly run in higher > resolution. > I think what you're asking is "How do I make all changes on the SmartOS/QEMU/Client side so that I don't have to make any changes within the guest OS?" The first thing I would try to do is force the VNC client to try to connect at a higher resolution. That might be enough to jolt the X server up to the higher resolution so that the login UI will be able to render correctly. Figuring out what arguments to add to qemu_extra_opts is what I would explore second. > BTW, is spice stable enough on SmartOS? > My old email address which was CCd on your message was from my time at Elysium Digital which was acquired by Stroz Friedberg[1] in 2015 and which I left in March of this year (2016). When I left, ~50 people in that Boston office were still using Spice enabled VMs (running Fedora as the guest OS) on SmartOS as their primary work systems every day which they had been doing for years. I would have argued then that for some value of stable, that counted. I do not know if that system is still in use, and even if it is, it probably won't be for much longer. For a while after I left I was still regularly using a Spice enabled Fedora VM on my home server for most of my personal stuff. At this point most of what I was doing on it has been split apart between a Mac laptop and a Centos 7 LX branded zone on the SmartOS machine. Which means that the Spice for SmartOS work is currently dormant in terms of my time and I'm pretty sure no one else is actively developing it. So it may be somewhat stable, but it's kind of rotting on the vine at this point. <shameless self promotion> If anyone out there is using the Spice enabled QEMU code and needs support, my current employer, OmniTI, is a consulting company and can sell you my time to work on it. </shameless self promotion> -Nahum [1] Stroz Friedberg has since been acquired by Aon > -----Original Message----- > > From: Nahum Shalman [mailto:nshalman-smar...@elys.com] > > Sent: 星期一, 三月 25, 2013 21:01 > > To: smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org > > Cc: Alain O'Dea > > Subject: Re: [smartos-discuss] Cannot get working VNC Viewer onto KVM > Zone > > > > On 03/23/2013 09:56 PM, Alain O'Dea wrote: > > > Is SPICE a feasible option here? I notice the experimental > > > configuration options for it. I'm really only looking at having a > > > console long enough to install the OS and bootstrap a Bomgar session > > > onto the desktop. > > > > Feasible, possibly. Ideal, probably not. > > In order to use Spice, you need to use an alternate QEMU binary rather > than > > the one that ships with the platform. > > (See http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Spice+on+SmartOS for details) > > > > The benefit of using "my" QEMU is that you can use Spice. The biggest > down > > side is that if you run into problems, you're not using the Joyent > supported > > QEMU. > > > > One option if you're trying to build a fresh image to use later as a > template that > > will have SSH already working, you could try using the Spice enabled > QEMU for > > the stage of building your image, verify that a fresh boot of that image > does > > bring up SSH as desired, then use that image with the platform QEMU. > > > > So, order of preference from best to worst from my perspective: > > Try to get VNC working. > > Use Spice enabled QEMU for image building, platform QEMU for > production > > workload. > > Use Spice enabled QEMU for building and running in production > > > > I do run "my" QEMU in production, but I can't provide support. > > > > -Nahum > > > > P.S. I might not-so-secretly be hoping that you'll choose #3 *and* that > you'll > > then ask Joyent to support it... A guy can dream. > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
