Getting Spice agent to work properly with Ubuntu 14.04.2
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
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. David
Or maybe the ovirt guest agent repository (I followed instructions here: http://www.ovirt.org/How_to_install_the_guest_agent_in_Ubuntu)?
-Bob
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On Mar 12, 2015 7:52 AM, "David Jaša" <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. -Bob
David
Or maybe the ovirt guest agent repository (I followed instructions
here: http://www.ovirt.org/How_to_install_the_guest_agent_in_Ubuntu)?
-Bob
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On 03/12/2015 08:34 AM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
On Mar 12, 2015 7:52 AM, "David Jaša" <djasa@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.
Never mind, I've ruled that out. I started a new VM, installed the 14.04.2 Desktop distro, did an apt-get update + dist-upgrade, and tried to install these two packages and got the same error. So it is definitely isolated to their repositories, as you suggested. Anybody know the proper mailing list or chat room to report a problem with the Ubuntu repositories? Thanks, Bob
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/ HTH -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards Sven Kieske Systemadministrator Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG Königsberger Straße 6 32339 Espelkamp T: +49-5772-293-100 F: +49-5772-293-333 https://www.mittwald.de Geschäftsführer: Robert Meyer St.Nr.: 331/5721/1033, USt-IdNr.: DE814773217, HRA 6640, AG Bad Oeynhausen Komplementärin: Robert Meyer Verwaltungs GmbH, HRB 13260, AG Bad Oeynhausen
On 03/12/2015 11:05 AM, Sven Kieske wrote:
Anybody know the proper mailing list or chat room to report a problem with the Ubuntu repositories?
On 12/03/15 15:30, Bob Doolittle wrote: their bugtracker is at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/
Well this is just too weird. According to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-qxl/+bug/126736... this bug has affected Ubuntu since Jan 2014 (Ubuntu 12.04), and hasn't been addressed! 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)? Thanks, Bob
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 -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards Sven Kieske Systemadministrator Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG Königsberger Straße 6 32339 Espelkamp T: +49-5772-293-100 F: +49-5772-293-333 https://www.mittwald.de Geschäftsführer: Robert Meyer St.Nr.: 331/5721/1033, USt-IdNr.: DE814773217, HRA 6640, AG Bad Oeynhausen Komplementärin: Robert Meyer Verwaltungs GmbH, HRB 13260, AG Bad Oeynhausen
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
On 03/12/2015 11:05 AM, Sven Kieske wrote:
Anybody know the proper mailing list or chat room to report a problem with the Ubuntu repositories?
On 12/03/15 15:30, Bob Doolittle wrote: their bugtracker is at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/
Where is upstream for Spice /QXL development? Thanks, Bob
HTH
On 12/03/15 16:56, Bob Doolittle wrote:
Where is upstream for Spice /QXL development?
That would be: http://www.spice-space.org/ a red hat emerging project :) Their devel list is at: spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org HTH -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Regards Sven Kieske Systemadministrator Mittwald CM Service GmbH & Co. KG Königsberger Straße 6 32339 Espelkamp T: +49-5772-293-100 F: +49-5772-293-333 https://www.mittwald.de Geschäftsführer: Robert Meyer St.Nr.: 331/5721/1033, USt-IdNr.: DE814773217, HRA 6640, AG Bad Oeynhausen Komplementärin: Robert Meyer Verwaltungs GmbH, HRB 13260, AG Bad Oeynhausen
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