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From: "Hans de Goede" <hdegoede@redhat.com> To: dlaor@redhat.com Cc: "Oved Ourfalli" <ovedo@redhat.com>, spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, engine-devel@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.
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