----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hans de Goede" <hdego...@redhat.com> > To: dl...@redhat.com > Cc: "Oved Ourfalli" <ov...@redhat.com>, spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, > engine-de...@ovirt.org > Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 4:36:06 PM > Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] [Engine-devel] SPICE related features > > Hi all, > > Dor, thanks for the forward. > > On 02/08/2012 12:49 PM, Dor Laor wrote: > > On 02/08/2012 01:43 PM, Oved Ourfalli wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> The following feature page describes the engine adjustments needed > >> for new SPICE features. > >> > >> http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Features/SPICERelatedFeatures > > Al in all this looks good, some remarks: > > * WRT multi monitor support for RHEL, the latest RHEL > xorg-x11-drv-qxl and > spice-vdagent packages do support multi monitor support using > multiple > cards in Xinerama mode. We are waiting for a RHEL-6 z-stream > update to > fix an x11-xorg-server-Xorg bug which atm makes the mouse unusable > in this > mode wants this lands, multi-monitor support this way should be > available > for RHEL-6.2 (and later) guests. The same holds true for Fedora > guests, > although I don't expect the necessary Xorg changes to be available > for > versions older then Fedora 17. The driving multiple monitors from > a single > qxl device support OTOH is still a long time away, likely 6 months > or so. > The idea behind this support is to have it on a single PCI card, and not on multiple ones.
> * WRT the native USB support, the wiki page says: > "If the cluster level is 3.1 (which supports native USB support), > but the > client only has non-native USB support (old client), then we will > use the > old client. This means that we'll have to keep supporting the > non-native USB > support, side-by-side with the native one." > > Note that the new usb-support requires starting the guest with a > number of > extra emulated devices. These will just sit around and do nothing > if unused, > so I don't really expect any issues with this, but this still is > something > to be aware of. OTOH the old usb-support requires the installation > of extra > software inside the guest, if this is not installed falling back > to the old > client will not help wrt usb support. > Of course. Added a note on that in the wiki page. Thank you, Oved > Regards, > > Hans > _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
