[ovirt-users] Getting Spice agent to work properly with Ubuntu 14.04.2

[David Jaša]

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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