[Users] 2 virtual monitors for Fedora guest

David Jaša djasa at redhat.com
Tue Apr 8 15:34:00 UTC 2014


On Út, 2014-04-08 at 17:32 +0200, David Jaša wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> No configuration nor Xinerama should be needed. Just make sure you have
> spice-vdagent package installed, spice-vdagentd service running and two
> spice-vdagent processes running (one for *dm, one for your user
> session).

PS: if the spice-vdagent package is installed in the guest and the
processes mentioned above are not running, it is a bug that should be
reported.

David

>  Then enable other monitors in virt-viewer: check View ->
> Displays -> Display N.
> 
> Xinerama is an old hackish means to multimonitor for linux guests with
> numerou disadvantages so please avoid that. If you really really want to
> use xinerama, then switch your OS type to Windows and your VM will get
> multiple qxl devices that xinerama depends on.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> On Út, 2014-04-08 at 14:48 +0200, René Koch wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to virtualize my Fedora 20 workstation on oVirt 3.4 with 2 
> > screens.
> > 
> > No matter if I choose Server or Desktop and operating system Linux or 
> > RHEL 6.x x64 (surprisingly Fedora is missing in the list) my Fedora 
> > guest (or better say LXRandR) only recognizes 1 monitor.
> > 
> > ps -ef | grep myvm shows me that there are 2 monitors (or at least I 
> > think that I can interpret the output this way):
> > -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.ram_size=134217728 -global 
> > qxl-vga.vram_size=33554432
> > 
> > Does anyone know how I can make my Fedora guest work with 2 screens?
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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