[Users] f19 guest in oVirt 3.2.2 considerations

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 09:35:21PM +0200, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> Successfully installed f19 x86_64 guest desktop via pxe.
> Vm configured in oVirt as other linux
> 
> run yum update after install
> 
> qemu-kvm process command line on host for this VM contains:
> 
> -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=671088
> 
> On F19 VM xorg qxl driver automatically installed and used and also
> spice-vdagent
> I had to manually install ovirt-guest-agent from standard fedora repo
> --> perhaps it would be nice to have it some sort of automatically
> installed in oVirt guest... how?
> 
> 
> I put guest in full screen, aka in my setup 1680x1050
> Able to use gnome 3 even if quite slow.
> 
> As soon as I start firefox and begin to use it I get this in Xorg.0.log
> 
> ...
> [   789.615] - 3th attempt
> [   789.615] - OOM at 640 360 32 (= 921600 bytes)
> [   789.615] Cache contents:  null null null null null null null null
> null null null null null null null null null null null null null null
> null null null null null null null null null null null null null null
> null null null null null null null null null null null null null null
> null null null null null null null  956 1008 null null  974 1017 1020
>    total: 5
> [   789.627] - 4th attempt
> [   789.627] - OOM at 640 360 32 (= 921600 bytes)
> [   789.627] Cache contents:  null null null null null null null null
> null null null null null null null null null null null null null null
> null null null null null null null null null null null null null null
> null null null null null null null null null null null null null null
> null null null null null null null  956 1008 null null  974 1017 1020
>    total: 5
> [   789.639] Out of video memory: Could not allocate 924160 bytes
> 
> Is there any way to customize spice video memory?

Engine passes a specParam named "vram" for the memory size. Eli, I have
a vague memory that it was tunabled. Am I right?

If not, you could set a vdsm hook to tweak it.

Dan.