On 16 June 2011 00:34, Alon Levy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 09:35:57PM +0100, Damien Churchill wrote: >> On 15 June 2011 21:11, --[ UxBoD ]-- <[email protected]> wrote: >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> >> Hello, all. We have recently jumped into SPICE with both hands and >> >> feet >> >> as we are intrigued with the possibilities. But, we've hit a few >> >> rocks >> >> along the way! >> >> >> >> The immediate problems with our two test Windows installations >> >> (Windows7 >> >> and Windows Server 2008 running as KVM guests in Fedora 15) using the >> >> QXL driver is that the pixel depth appears to be 4-bits, the only >> >> available resolutions are 640x480 and 800x600, and the mouse is >> >> unusably >> >> lagged. >> >> >> >> Here are the details. >> >> >> >> Spice client compiled from >> >> http://www.spice-space.org/download/releases/spice-0.8.1.tar.bz2 on >> >> Debian Squeeze. >> >> >> >> I believe the Windows QXL driver and vdagent were compiled from the >> >> same. Phil, could you please confirm that. >> >> >> >> KVM is from Fedora 15 yum repositories. >> >> >> >> Our first attempt on Windows 7 yielded a screen with appropriate >> >> pixel >> >> depth and quite responsive video however the mouse was nearly >> >> unusable. >> >> We checked the video driver and it appeared to be using VGA rather >> >> than >> >> QXL despite: >> >> 'spicevmc'> >> >> 'virtio' name='com.redhat.spice.0'/> >> >> >> >> >> >> 'tablet' bus='usb'/> >> >> 'mouse' bus='ps2'/> >> >> 'spice' port='5800' tlsPort='5801' autoport='no' >> >> listen='0.0.0.0'/> >> >> >> >> 'qxl' vram='65536' heads='1'/> >> >> 'pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' >> >> function='0x0'/> >> >> >> >> >> >> This seemed to be due to the QXL driver being unsigned. We next put >> >> up >> >> a Windows Server 2008 wondering if the mouse problem was a Windows 7 >> >> issue. We were able to test sign the driver. Anticipating splendid >> >> success, we were deeply disappointed when we still had not only the >> >> mouse problem but now saw the pixel depth and resolution problem. >> >> >> >> We then test signed the QXL driver on Windows 7 and, lo and behold, >> >> the >> >> same pixel depth and resolution issues appeared now that we were >> >> indeed >> >> using the QXL driver. >> >> >> >> What did we do wrong? We would dearly love for this to work and we >> >> are >> >> sure it must be working for someone if it is being used in >> >> production. >> >> Thanks - John >> >> >> > >> > John, >> > >> > Alon (Redhat Dev) has a patch for QEMU which should hopefully fix the 4bpp >> > issue but the binary and necessary libraries he sent me would not run >> > successfully on our server. It was execute and then hang and eventually >> > time out. Perhaps, as discussed, we could build from source though I >> > wonder why that patch has not been fully committed yet? >> > -- >> >> Is the patch available to try anywhere? I'd like to give it a test and >> see what happens. > > attached. >
Excellent thanks, I'll report back with my results. _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
