Linux guests vs. Spice/QXL?

Hi all, I'm running some tests on OVirt (3.6.5.3) on CentOS 7 and almost everything works quite well so far. CentOS 6.x, Windows 7 and 2008R2 work fine with Spice/QXL, so my setup seems to be ok. Other Linux systems don't work: Debian 8, Fedora 23/24, CentOS 7.x, Kubuntu 16.04... CentOS 7.x even kills his X server every time the user logs out. X-) They all have in common that they show a fixed display resolution of 1024x768 pixels. This can not be changed manually and of course automatic display resizing doesn't work either. All machines have spice-vdagent and ovirt-guest-agent installed and running. Is this a local problem or is this known/expected behaviour? Is there anything I can do to improve this? thank you, Uwe

Hi! Did you set the correct OS type in the VM properties in each test? Shmuel On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm running some tests on OVirt (3.6.5.3) on CentOS 7 and almost everything works quite well so far.
CentOS 6.x, Windows 7 and 2008R2 work fine with Spice/QXL, so my setup seems to be ok.
Other Linux systems don't work: Debian 8, Fedora 23/24, CentOS 7.x, Kubuntu 16.04... CentOS 7.x even kills his X server every time the user logs out. X-)
They all have in common that they show a fixed display resolution of 1024x768 pixels. This can not be changed manually and of course automatic display resizing doesn't work either.
All machines have spice-vdagent and ovirt-guest-agent installed and running.
Is this a local problem or is this known/expected behaviour? Is there anything I can do to improve this?
thank you, Uwe _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Hi, Am 18.05.2016 um 16:03 schrieb Shmuel Melamud:
Did you set the correct OS type in the VM properties in each test?
It seems I didn't. After setting it to reasonable values the problem was solved for Debian 8 and CentOS 7 (both KDE4). Fedora 24 and Kubuntu 16.04 (both Plasma 5) stop insisting on 1024x768 as soon as you choose OS type "RHEL 7x" (no autosizing though). I never thought this setting could be so important. :) Thank you very much! cu, Uwe
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