Bug 1320480
| Summary: | Multihead support in vmware | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Martin Krajnak <mkrajnak> |
| Component: | xorg-x11-drv-vmware | Assignee: | Adam Jackson <ajax> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfe> |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.8 | CC: | ajax, boyang, mkrajnak, syeh, thellstrom, tpelka |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Known Issue | |
| Doc Text: |
The *vmware* driver does not support multiple displays
The *vmware* video driver for the X11 window system misses certain features related to multi-display support. As a consequence, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 guests running on VMware cannot correctly use multiple displays and only single-display support is available.
Please contact Red Hat support for test packages if you require multi-display support.
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Story Points: | --- |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2017-12-06 12:18:54 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 1360926 | ||
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Description
Martin Krajnak
2016-03-23 10:21:53 UTC
(In reply to Martin Krajnak from comment #0) > Description of problem: > Virtual machine in vmware is not able to use secondary display connected to > host computer. The only visible change, after toggling second monitor on is > wrong position of mouse cursor. > > Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): > vm-ware player 11,9 > kernel-2.6.32-625.el6.x86_64 > xorg-x11-drv-vmware-13.1.0-2.el6.x86_64 > > Setup: > Host machine with 2 monitors (17",23"), both of them properly working. > > How reproducible: > always > > Steps to Reproduce: > 1. run vmware player > 2. run rhel 6.8 as VM > 3. choose from menu: Virtual Machine -> Enter Full Screen > 4. go to the toolbar, which is placed in the middle of the upper part of > screen > 5. click on little monitor icon > > Actual results: > Second monitor is not initiated, mouse click are bit misplaced (clicks are > not exactly in place where pointer is) > > Expected results: > Should toggle on second monitor and mouse should work properly. > > Additional info: > I also tried to play with virtual machine settings in vmware player > (specifying the monitor number to two), but result was the same as using the > host settings. Hi, Martin I am a virt QE, Need your help to confirm something. Q1. which Vmware product was used in your environment? VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion or vShpere? I tested with 2 displays in vSphere, need hope it was useful for this issue, not clear they were the same issues ENV: Host: ESXi5.5 Guest: RHEL7.3 xorg-x11-drv-vmware: 13.0.2-7 VMWGFX: 2.10.0.0 Steps: 1. Connected two display to Guest 2. Set "Number of displays" to 2 3. Set "Total video memory" to 128 4. Boot Guest Results: 1. After step 4: a. RHEL7 "Virtual Machine Console" can detect display-1. b. Drag "Virtual Machine Console" to display-2, that was ok. c. Full Screen "Virtual Machine Console" in diplay-2, lead to "Virtual Machine Console" becoming full screen in display-1, and the "Virtual Machine Console" in display-2 still was the original size, mouse / keyboard didn't work Thanks Hello boyang, I am looking to your reproducer and same as you I am not sure if we are testing the same features. I reported the bug a while ago so I am not sure about all the details but from my perspective we are using totally different envinronments. Q1: I was using RHEL 6.8 on both guest and hosts and I was using VMware player which I believe is the only one product which I have access to (I am not sure about that). In my case the display-2 wasn't working at all and the input (mouse/keyboard) was working but was working incorrectly. Therefore I think that in this case it might not be the same issue but I am not sure because I don't have the access to environment that was affected by this issue right now and setup would require some time. I also think that we used different version of xorg packages that might be the reason why are the results different: xorg-x11-drv-vmware-13.1.0-2.el6.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-vmware: 13.0.2-7 I am not sure if any of above helps, issue you are describing looks like a different one to me. Please let me know how I can help further. Setting up needinfo that I cleared accidentally Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is in the Production 3 Phase. During the Production 3 Phase, Critical impact Security Advisories (RHSAs) and selected Urgent Priority Bug Fix Advisories (RHBAs) may be released as they become available. The official life cycle policy can be reviewed here: http://redhat.com/rhel/lifecycle This issue does not meet the inclusion criteria for the Production 3 Phase and will be marked as CLOSED/WONTFIX. If this remains a critical requirement, please contact Red Hat Customer Support to request a re-evaluation of the issue, citing a clear business justification. Note that a strong business justification will be required for re-evaluation. Red Hat Customer Support can be contacted via the Red Hat Customer Portal at the following URL: https://access.redhat.com/ |