On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 01:34 +0200, Alon Levy wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 09:35:57PM +0100, Damien Churchill wrote: > > 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. > <snip>> > > > > 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. <snip>
Argh!!! I recompiled the rpms from the srpms after applying the patch and thought for sure our woes would be ended! Alas, perhaps we have 8 bit color now and we still have a maximum resolution of 800x600 :( What next? I double checked the BUILD directory to confirm the patch was applied. Perhaps I did not upgrade the proper RPMS? here is the list of what was created: qemu-0.14.0-8.fc15.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-0.14.0-8.fc15.x86_64.rpm qemu-system-m68k-0.14.0-8.fc15.x86_64.rpm qemu-user-0.14.0-8.fc15.x86_64.rpm qemu-common-0.14.0-8.fc15.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-0.14.0-8.fc15.x86_64.rpm qemu-system-mips-0.14.0-8.fc15.x86_64.rpm qemu-debuginfo-0.14.0-8.fc15.x86_64.rpm qemu-system-arm-0.14.0-8.fc15.x86_64.rpm qemu-system-sh4-0.14.0-8.fc15.x86_64.rpm qemu-img-0.14.0-8.fc15.x86_64.rpm qemu-system-cris-0.14.0-8.fc15.x86_64.rpm qemu-system-x86-0.14.0-8.fc15.x86_64.rpm Of these, I installed: qemu-kvm-0.14.0-8.fc15.x86_64.rpm qemu-common-0.14.0-8.fc15.x86_64.rpm qemu-kvm-tools-0.14.0-8.fc15.x86_64.rpm qemu-img-0.14.0-8.fc15.x86_64.rpm qemu-system-x86-0.14.0-8.fc15.x86_64.rpm I did reboot after upgrading the RPMs just in case. I'll paste in our build procedure below in case I mangled something. Thanks - John Retrieve the Fedora qemu SRPM wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/15/Fedora/source/SRPMS/qemu-0.14.0-7.fc15.src.rpm Install rpmbuild and related packages (yum install rpm-build redhat-rpm-config intltool) Install dependencies: yum install SDL-devel zlib-devel texi2html gnutls-devel cyrus-sasl-devel libaio-devel pciutils-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel ncurses-devel texinfo spice-protocol spice-server-devel su - compuser (NEVER build rpms as root) mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS} echo '%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild' > ~/.rpmmacros Still as compuser do: rpm -i qemu-0.14.0-7.fc15.src.rpm Go to the SOURCES directory and download the appropriate patch: cd ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES Copy in the 0001-vga-VBE-report-maximum-VGA_MEM_SIZE-memory.patch file Go to the SPECS directory, backup and then edit the qemu.spec file as follows: cd ../SPECS Change Release to 8%{?dist} Add the line: Patch19: 0001-vga-VBE-report-maximum-VGA_MEM_SIZE-memory.patch before the Patch20: line Add the line: %patch19 -p1 before the %patch20 -p1 line Build the RPM from the SPECS directory (rpmbuild -ba qemu.spec) The RPM will appear in ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/ _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
