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

[Bob Doolittle]

On Mar 12, 2015 7:52 AM, "David Jaša" <djasa at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

No. The point is that installing the agent requires us to configure a
special repository which holds the ovirt-guest-agent package. That
repository could well hold packages which conflict with the versions
required in the latest ubuntu repos.

-Bob

>
> 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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