Sorry if I'm missing something but I've dug through the wiki and search this forum to no avail. I have a few vm's running including Linux Mint, ubuntu, and Win 7. I can get the auto resizing, and sound working through win 7 with the spice-guest-tools.exe but on ubuntu and mint I cannot get the qxl stuff working. Both distros have the spice-vdagent package installed. I tried compiling the xf86-video-qxl-0.1.4.tar.bz2 in mint and it gives me "no package 'x-org-server' found". What am I missing?
SPICE linux qxl display driver
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But you get the display working under the Linux distros?
I tried it with some linux guest and it worked out of the box with all (didn't tested audio though). Ubuntu 15.4 was also under tested guests.
WHats your pveversion -v output and the VM configuration?
I tried it with some linux guest and it worked out of the box with all (didn't tested audio though). Ubuntu 15.4 was also under tested guests.
WHats your pveversion -v output and the VM configuration?
It shows that I'm running the RedHat paravirtualized QXL driver. Mint still reports it is in software rendering mode and auto resizing does not work.
I don't think you can have 3D acceleration via spice: it is planned, but not yet implemented according to http://www.spice-space.org/features.html
If you need to have 3D acceleration in one of your guest, you can use PCI passthrough.
There is a wiki article about that.
If you need to have 3D acceleration in one of your guest, you can use PCI passthrough.
There is a wiki article about that.
Ok. I played around with the PCI passthrough in the past. That part is not a big deal. Is the auto resize functionality tied to the version of virt-viewer running on my machine I'm connecting with, or something that only works with windows VM's?
Ok. So I removed the archaic 0.5.6 deb package that comes with mint and compiled and installed from source the newest 2.0 from the virt-viewer website but still no auto resize on linux distros? For some reason, in the past, I swore I got it to work and if you went under displays in ubuntu or mint, the "monitor" showed as QXL or redhat something instead of unknown like it is now. Any ideas?
Ok I tinkered and researched a bit, can you test the following:
1) shut down the guest
2) execute:
3) restart the guest
4) now a new devices should be visible in your guest under
After that you should be able to copy paste between host and client, auto resize ( at least xrandr updates the screen res correctly if I resize the spice client window) and better mouse integration.
Works for me with spice-vdagent under Ubuntu 14.04 as guest and virt-viewer 1.0.
EDIT:
removed the
parameter as it's already added by PVE, so it should work without it.
1) shut down the guest
2) execute:
Code:
qm set <VMID> --args "-device virtio-serial-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4"4) now a new devices should be visible in your guest under
Code:
ls /dev/virtio-ports/
com.redhat.spice.0After that you should be able to copy paste between host and client, auto resize ( at least xrandr updates the screen res correctly if I resize the spice client window) and better mouse integration.
Works for me with spice-vdagent under Ubuntu 14.04 as guest and virt-viewer 1.0.
EDIT:
removed the
Code:
-chardev spicevmc,id=spicechannel0,name=vdagent
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That did the trick with the ubuntu VM. Linux Mint still is not playing nice. I'm going to assume something about cinnamon is dropping the ball on reporting the new screen resolution to xrandr on fullscreen and resizing.
Yes it's a bit distro/desktop environment/window manager dependent.
Fedora has a nice support, it works out of the box (even during the installation).
More than the additional args: string I posted above cannot be done by the hosts' (qemu's) side, AFAIK.
Fedora has a nice support, it works out of the box (even during the installation).
More than the additional args: string I posted above cannot be done by the hosts' (qemu's) side, AFAIK.