This problem happens 'out of the box' using nothing more xubuntu trusty iso installed on two systems, one running virt-manager and the other hosting vms. So far, so good.
To reproduce: try a standard xubuntu amd64 install on a vm guest using qxl as the video driver and spice as the display system. Somewhere during the install questions to do with disk use, every second or thid letter randomly just disappears. "Removing firefo " a few dozen times,. Removing kpart redisplayed a few dozen times. The 'Thank you we'd love to hear about your experiences' screen has title "In ta". Trusty / qxl / spice on vm guests is compeltely unusable. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-qxl in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1261916 Title: Missing letters in spice client session with KVM guest Status in “xserver-xorg-video-qxl” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “xserver-xorg-video-qxl” package in Fedora: Unknown Bug description: Host: Xubuntu 13.04 Guest: Xubuntu 14.04 with qxl graphics When connecting to a KVM guest via Spice client characters are not displayed (in graphical mode), to such extent that messages become unreadable/guest becomes unusable. This bug was reported and kind of resolved for Red Hat/Fedora: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=974198 The mentioned workaround to add kernel parameter nomodeset worked for me up to now. Proposed resolution: Upgrade Debian/Ubuntu package to an up-to-date upstream release. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: xserver-xorg-video-qxl 0.1.1-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-7.15-generic 3.12.4 Uname: Linux 3.12.0-7-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Tue Dec 17 21:42:35 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-13 (4 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20131213) SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-qxl UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-qxl/+bug/1261916/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
