[Users] Correct way to change graphics adapter?

[Itamar Heim]

On 03/27/2014 10:16 AM, David Jaša wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Út, 2014-03-25 at 09:37 +0100, mad wrote:
>> Am 24.03.2014 23:20, schrieb Itamar Heim:> On 03/24/2014 08:04 AM, mad
>> wrote:
>>>> What is the proper way to change the graphics adapter of a VM? I know
>>>> that oVirt uses qemu and I know qemu configuration, but where in oVirt
>>>> do I change it?
>>>>
>>>> I found VDSM-Hooks/qemucmdline, but that can't be the correct way?
>>>>
>>>> Can I change the qemu xml somewhere?
>>>
>>> can you please explain the use case?
>>
>> We have software developers who need VMs to test their software and for
>> some test a display of 1280x1024 is necessary. The default cirrus
>> graphics card is not good enough for that.
>>
>> But we have some VMs which use a Red Hat Virtual graphics adapter and we
>> don't know how this happened or how it is configured.
>>
>> We just figured out that the difference may be connecting with SPICE or VNC.
>>
>
> Yes, the decision what virtual GPU to use is governed by VNC/SPICE
> checkbox. Spice is anyway better focused towards good UX for desktop
> workloads so what is your motivation to use VNC with sort of big screen
> size?
>
>> Is there a different way to change the grapics card permanently?
>
> You could try custom hook before VM start that would replace cirrus
> device with qxl device(s).
>

you can just change from vnc to spice and vice versa in the edit vm?

> David
>
> CCing František who could add something
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> mad
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