On 16 June 2011 20:47, John A. Sullivan III <jsulli...@opensourcedevel.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 12:22 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: >> On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 10:22 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: >> > On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 15:54 +0200, Alon Levy wrote: >> > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 01:42:07AM -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: >> > > > 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. >> > > > >> > > <snip>> >> > > >> > > Forgot to mention: to let the vm accept self signed certificates you >> > > need to: >> > > bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING ON >> > > >> > > (see http://spice-space.org/page/WinQXL, and the source is >> > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5698617/signing-x64-driver-with-test-certificate) >> > > >> > Strange, after doing this with the new drivers, there is an ! mark next >> > to the driver and I'm falling back to the VGA drivers. I wonder if we >> > mangled something in our original signing. I'm going to resign the >> > drivers we compiled and try again - John >> <snip> >> Good news! It appears to be working. The only difference between what >> Phil did and what I did was that I used the utilities provided with the >> SDK and WinQual whereas Phil used the tools in the DDK. Whatever it is, >> it is looking quite good. On to the W2K8 test now. Thanks very, very >> much - John > <snip> > W2K8 is working fine. Now on to tweaking and finding out why the > WIndows Agent keeps failing. Thanks for all the help - John >
It has also resolved things for me, 64bit qxl working absolutely fine now, thanks! _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
