Bug 757874

Summary: virt-manager default display should be spice/qlx (it is incorrectly vnc/cirrus)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Reartes Guillermo <rtguille>
Component: virt-managerAssignee: Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 17CC: berrange, crobinso, dougsland, dpierce, hbrock, jforbes, jreznik, rth
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Fixed In Version: virt-manager-0.9.1-3.fc17 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Reartes Guillermo 2011-11-28 21:10:10 UTC
Description of problem:

Creating a guest with all defaults leads to a vnc/cirrus diplay, 
wich suffer from slowness and high cpu comsupmtion (it started one month
before F13 was EOLed).

Anyway, spice/qlx is much better.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

libvirt.x86_64              0.8.8-7.fc15           @updates
libvirt-client.x86_64       0.8.8-7.fc15           @updates
libvirt-python.x86_64       0.8.8-7.fc15           @updates
virt-manager.noarch         0.8.7-6.fc15           @updates
virt-viewer.x86_64          0.3.1-1.fc15           @fedora


How reproducible:
allways

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a guest
2. it defaults to vnc/cirrus

  
Actual results:
vnc/cirrus is the display

Expected results:
spice/qlx being the display

Additional info:
wnload drivers that are offered only in .zip and not in .iso

Comment 1 Reartes Guillermo 2011-11-28 21:12:16 UTC
Additional info:

The drivers are offered only in .zip and not in .iso (wich can be directly added to the guest more easy)

I hit "summit..." too early by mistake.

Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2012-01-18 15:50:27 UTC
Thanks for the report. This is the default in f16 but we won't be changing it in f15 at this point since most of the qxl/spice testing has been on f16. Closing as WONTFIX

Comment 3 Jaroslav Reznik 2012-04-10 11:37:48 UTC
Is the qxl/spice really default in Fedora 16? My virt-manager defaults to vnc/cirrus. After the recent change in cirrus driver, it breaks KDE desktop (the Qt raster engine does not support 16 bpp very well).

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=810161

Comment 4 Cole Robinson 2012-04-10 13:49:17 UTC
Yeah this is actually busted. Moving to f17

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-04-25 13:56:36 UTC
virt-manager-0.9.1-3.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/virt-manager-0.9.1-3.fc17

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-04-26 19:26:19 UTC
Package virt-manager-0.9.1-3.fc17:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing virt-manager-0.9.1-3.fc17'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-6651/virt-manager-0.9.1-3.fc17
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2012-05-02 20:51:51 UTC
virt-manager-0.9.1-3.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 8 Richard Henderson 2012-06-04 19:05:44 UTC
Not fixed in 0.9.1-3.

I just created a new f17 guest and 
(1) the default is still cirrus+vnc,
(2) the package doesn't install the proper dependencies and
    manually changing to spice results in 

    Cannot display graphical console type 'spice':
    No module named SpiceClientGtk


$ rpm -q -a | grep spice
spice-gtk3-0.12-4.fc17.x86_64
spice-vdagent-0.10.1-1.fc17.x86_64
spice-glib-0.12-4.fc17.x86_64
spice-gtk-0.12-4.fc17.x86_64
spice-server-0.10.1-2.fc17.x86_64

$ rpm -q -a | grep virt
virt-manager-common-0.9.1-3.fc17.noarch
libvirt-daemon-0.9.11.3-1.fc17.x86_64
libvirt-0.9.11.3-1.fc17.x86_64
libvirt-python-0.9.11.3-1.fc17.x86_64
libvirt-daemon-config-network-0.9.11.3-1.fc17.x86_64
libvirt-client-0.9.11.3-1.fc17.x86_64
virt-manager-0.9.1-3.fc17.noarch
libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter-0.9.11.3-1.fc17.x86_64
python-virtinst-0.600.1-1.fc17.1.noarch

Comment 9 Reartes Guillermo 2012-06-04 21:38:13 UTC
Yes, F17 still creates cirrus+vnc by default.

Too bad, since i was not able to locate winxp qlx 
drivers anymore...only source code. discontinued?

Comment 10 Cole Robinson 2012-06-06 21:24:30 UTC
I think this is a side effect of missing spice dependency

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 819270 ***