Bug 491683

Jesse - does playing with the "Graphical Console Scaling" preference help?

No, as that scales the display for the size of the virt-viewer window, rather than scaling the virt-viewer window for the size of the display.

I can't reproduce this on a fully updated rawhide. I'm using:

sudo virt-install --name f11-install --ram 1500 --vcpus 2 --location some-rawhide-url --os-variant fedora11 --disk pool=default,size=2 --accelerate

When virt-viewer pops up, it enters text mode. I give it the basic input, network is brought up, stage-2 is fetched, and transition into the graphical screen causes virt-viewer to resize and fit the new resolution. Having scaling on or off doesn't affect the result. Same behavior seen when kicking off an F10 install.

Jesse, are you still seeing this? Can you give an example virt-install command you are using? How do my steps differ from yours?

The virt-install is being done on another machine, via koan.  It is a remote guest that I am connecting to via a local virt-manager.  The remote guest starts and I see it show up in the guest list of the remote virt-manager system in my local virt-manager window.  I double click on the guest to create a viewer for it.  It is this viewer window that no longer autosizes as the guest changes size (from bios, to text mode for install, to graphical mode for install/boot).

Same problem on Fedora 10 (updates-testing).
After starting installation, virt-viewer size is larger than text mode install, so it works well. When installer starts X, virt-viewer window size has same size and some buttons from installer are not visible.

I have the same problem, virt-viewer doesn't auto resize. I'm using Fedora 11 Beta x86_64.

Danpb, any ideas?

Hmm I take it this is unrelated to a similar problem with virt-manager console assuming fullscreen?

I can't reproduce this and no one has provided any details of the versions they are using. Someone who can reproduce it, please provide

 - Host OS version
 - virt-manger RPM version
 - gtk-vnc RPM version

And clear steps on how demonstrating the problem.

Host-OS version: something between beta and RC

Linux dhcp03.addix.net 2.6.29.1-102.fc11.i686.PAE #1 SMP Mon Apr 20 15:30:47 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
package qemu-kvm is not installed
libvirt-0.6.2-3.fc11.i586
virt-manager-0.7.0-4.fc11.i586
gtk-vnc-0.3.8-8.fc11.i586

System is already running, with a Windows 2000 under qemu-kvm running in the background.

Steps to reproduce:

a) start virt-manager
b) double click on entry for running windows 2000 machine
c) Virtual machine window opens with wrong size (see attached screenshot)
d) Virtual machine window can be resized at will (larger or smaller than guest resolution)

Created attachment 342633 [details]
Screenshot of Vm window just after opening

fedora-release-10.93-2.noarch
virt-manager-0.7.0-4.fc11.i586
virt-viewer-0.0.3-4.fc11.i586
gtk-vnc-0.3.8-8.fc11.i586

Is it possible, this has something with window manager?

This problem has been started, when "scale only on fullscreen" has been added. Older version does not fix window size, but scalling can fit virtual screen into current window.

Try to turn on "scale only on fullscreen" or disable scaling and then install F10 or F11 in graphics mode. On F11 there is also another bug caused by this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499111

This is caused by the following changeset between 0.6.0 and 0.7.0 virt-manager

http://hg.et.redhat.com/cgi-bin/hg-virt.cgi/applications/virt-manager--devel/rev/50db2a43966f

Specifically, these 2 lines change to vmm-details.glade

 2.7 + <property name="width_request">800</property>
 2.8 + <property name="height_request">600</property> 


Removing them makes the window resize as desired again.

*** Bug 499111 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Hmm, a lot of the reporters are explictly saying 'virt-viewer', so maybe there is also another issue here?

Is anyone seeing this issue _outside_ of virt-manager, with the standalone 'virt-viewer' tool (the one launched by virt-install)?

I can't confirm this for virt-viewer.

Also works well after reverse-applying part of patch to virt-manager.

(In reply to comment #15)
> Hmm, a lot of the reporters are explictly saying 'virt-viewer', so maybe there
> is also another issue here?
> 
> Is anyone seeing this issue _outside_ of virt-manager, with the standalone
> 'virt-viewer' tool (the one launched by virt-install)?  

Right I think Jesse might be using virsh and virt-install.

I think I mistakenly used the term virt-viewer.  On the remote machine I use koan to do the install, and on my local machine I'm using virt-manager to connect to the remote system and view the guest in question.

Ok, thanks, then guess Jan is right about my duplicate.

Can we have a build with the above fix please to test?

*** Bug 499111 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

(In reply to comment #19)
> Can we have a build with the above fix please to test?  

I have it at my local builder:
  http://builder.salstar.sk/local/10/i386/virt/virt-manager-0.7.0-4.fc10.1.i386.rpm

or for rawhide:
  http://builder.salstar.sk/fedora-rawhide-i386/result/
(only temporary, before I rebuild something else).

*** Bug 499534 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Pushing an update to updates-test with Dan's fix for this; please add a comment to bodhi if you test this

* Thu May 21 2009 Mark McLoughlin <markmc> - 0.7.0-5.fc11
- Fix 'opertaing' typo in 'New VM' dialog (#495128)
- Allow details window to resize again (#491683)
- Handle collecting username for vnc authentication (#499589)
- Actually handle arch config when creating a VM (#499145)
- Log libvirt capabilities at startup to aid debugging (#500337)

virt-manager-0.7.0-5.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/virt-manager-0.7.0-5.fc11

*** Bug 500996 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

virt-manager-0.7.0-5.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update virt-manager'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-5410

(In reply to comment #23)
> Pushing an update to updates-test with Dan's fix for this; please add a comment
> to bodhi if you test this
> 
> * Thu May 21 2009 Mark McLoughlin <markmc> - 0.7.0-5.fc11

Works well too.

virt-manager-0.7.0-5.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

There seems to be a regression:
virt-manager-1.1.0-5.git310f6527.fc21.noarch

I have to go once into fullscreen mode to be able to set the maximal resolution in a legacy gtk2 environment like Xfce 4.10 is (e.g. with Fedora 20 or CentOS 7.x).

It seems to scale down a higher resolution of the guest rightly to the smaller window when the check mark is removed from "Auto resize VM with window".

Reopening a 6 year old bug is not good form. Even if the symptoms are the same, the code in this area is about 100% different these days. Please file a new bug, describing exactly what you are attempting to do, what results you expect, and what incorrect results you are getting