Re: [ovirt-users] Getting Spice agent to work properly with Ubuntu 14.04.2

On Mar 12, 2015 7:52 AM, "David Jaša" <djasa(a)redhat.com <mailto:djasa@redhat.com>> wrote: > > On St, 2015-03-11 at 16:09 -0400, Bob Doolittle wrote: > > I'm configuring a new Ubuntu desktop VM, with 14.04.2. > > > > I've installed ovirt-guest-agent and spice-vdagent. But when I connect to the console I get 640x480 resolution only. Resizing the console window does not change the underlying desktop resolution. > > > > I saw in the Wiki that I should install xserver-xorg-video-qxl, but when I attempt to do so the installation fails, saying I have some broken dependencies: > > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > xserver-xorg-video-qxl : Depends: xorg-video-abi-15 > > Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.14.99.902) > > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > > > > > If I try to install xorg-video-abi-15 or xserver-xorg-core, it also fails. They depend on a bunch of packages which say "not going to be installed". > > > > Anybody know what's going on here? Is the Ubuntu repository broken? > > Definitely. Alternatively, your package management keeps you at old > xserver-xorg-core version that conflicts with available qxl driver. > > Agents are completely unrelated to this issue, both xorg core and qxl > driver are part of Ubuntu repos. No. The point is that installing the agent requires us to configure a special repository which holds the ovirt-guest-agent package. That repository could well hold packages which conflict with the versions required in the latest ubuntu repos.