[Users] full screen and different resolutions with spice

[Itamar Heim]

On 14/02/2013 13:22, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> Let me know if I had better to post to spice-devel....

yes... adding them

>
> I'm testing oVirt 3.2 beta user portal.
> One client boots from a usb stick running SLAX 32bit in persistent
> mode with kernel 3.6.9.
> It is a derivative from slackware 14 where I compiled and persistently installed
> spice-protocol-0.12.2-noarch-1
> xf86-video-qxl-0.1.0-i486-1
> celt051-0.5.1.3-i486-1
> pyparsing-1.5.6-i486-1
> spice-0.12.0-i486-1
> vala-0.17.6-i486-1
> gtk-vnc-0.5.1-i486-2
> virt-viewer-0.5.4-i486-1
> xulrunner-15.0.1-i486-1
> jdk-7u13-i586-1
> spice-xpi-2.8-i486-1
>
> so far so good.
> I can start firefox 17.0.1 and connect to user portal
>
> The test VM is Windows XP
>
> There was previously a session from another client pc with full screen
> resolution of 1366x768.
> Now this other client PC has a max resolution of 1024x768
>
> I notice that it fails to start in full screen (I get the typical
> window where you see that the screen is bigger than the current
> physical) and also the Shift+F11 shortcut doesn't get any effect or
> error.
> If inside the vm I now set 1024x768 it adjusts and I can set full
> screen with Shift+F11 and I now can disconnect and reconnect
> successfully in fullscreen option.
>
> Then I close spice window and sign out from user portal (leaving the
> VM at its logged in screen)
>
> If now I connect again to the user portal  from the 1366x768 capable
> client, that is Fedora 17 with firefox 18.0 and
>
> spice-gtk-python-0.12-5.fc17.x86_64
> spice-xpi-2.8-2.fc17.x86_64
> spice-server-0.10.1-5.fc17.x86_64
> spice-gtk-tools-0.12-5.fc17.x86_64
> spice-client-0.10.1-5.fc17.x86_64
> spice-vdagent-0.10.1-1.fc17.x86_64
> spice-gtk-0.12-5.fc17.x86_64
> spice-glib-0.12-5.fc17.x86_64
> spice-gtk3-0.12-5.fc17.x86_64
>
> I connect in full screen mode and I see the Windows XP session just
> starts in 1024x768 (as I left it) and suddenly adjusts to the 1366x768
> capable resolution
>
> Any hint on why the fiirst auto-adjust didn't work?
>
> - different spice version?
> - perhaps only possible to up scale but not down scale?
> - other?
>
> This will address situation with one user potentially connecting to
> the same VM in full screen mode but using different clients and so
> with possible different video resolutions
> A work around could be to power off the vm each time but it is not desirable...
>
> Also, in Fedora I get the small box at top middle of the screen where
> I can exit full screen for my vm. Instead in slax I have not it.
> WHat is the component providing that box?
>
> Thanks for all
> Gianluca
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