On 15 June 2011 21:11, --[ UxBoD ]-- <ux...@splatnix.net> 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. _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
