Re: [ovirt-users] Getting Spice agent to work properly with Ubuntu 14.04.2
On 03/12/2015 12:01 PM, Sven Kieske wrote:
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
Definitely - if you want a server installation, don't install a desktop distro. But if
you want desktops from your guest (e.g. User Portal/VDI), Xorg is inescapable (at least
until Mir/Wayland are out), and of course will have many dependencies (the desktop itself
will have even more, particularly for Gnome or KDE). For connecting to desktops, in my
experience Spice is preferable to VNC.
I swear I have used Ubuntu desktops in guests before, and didn't run into this
problem. I feel either something has changed recently, or I'm doing something wrong.
Things are much too broken to be plausible as "typical". I know I didn't
have to live with 640x480 consoles.
Still hoping somebody can point to upstream for Spice/VNC. The Spice Wiki is full of
broken links (a bad sign, I would say).
-Bob