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?

Or maybe the ovirt guest agent repository (I followed instructions here: http://www.ovirt.org/How_to_install_the_guest_agent_in_Ubuntu)? -Bob _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

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.

On 12/03/15 15:30, Bob Doolittle wrote: > Anybody know the proper mailing list or chat room to report a problem with the Ubuntu repositories? their bugtracker is at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/

On 12/03/15 16:24, Bob Doolittle wrote: > Is it really the case that *nobody* is able to change resolutions for their ovirt/SPICE Ubuntu Guest VMs? And that according to launchpad only *4* people have claimed they are affected??? That seems hard to believe. > > Is anybody else out there using an Ubuntu Guest, and is able to change resolution for their SPICE console to anything but 640x480 (which is, for all practical purposes, unusable)? Well I still don't use spice, it seems very alpha/beta to me. Also these dependencies seem insane, for a server installation: xserver-xorg-core

Where is upstream for Spice /QXL development?