Bug 965851

Summary: When changing from cirrus->qxl, offer to change from vnc->spice
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component: virt-managerAssignee: Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Bill Nottingham 2013-05-21 20:48:22 UTC 
Description of problem:

For example, it lets you leave the connection as VNC if you change the display adapter from Cirrus to Spice. That doesn't work well.

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virt-manager-0.10.0-0.2.gitb68faac8.fc19.noarch
Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2013-05-22 15:29:57 UTC 
I can't quite parse that, do you mean change from cirrus->qxl ?

VNC _should_ work with QXL, if it doesn't that's a qemu bug. In fact this combo can be useful for testing: spice+qxl is responsible for many qemu crashes, reproducing (or not) with VNC+qxl or spice+cirrus can be a useful datapoint.
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2013-05-22 18:05:06 UTC 
Correct, I changed from cirrus to qxl, and it didn't work. (garbage on screen), so I assumed it wasn't expected to.
Comment 3 Cole Robinson 2013-10-02 22:57:17 UTC 
I went the opposite direction upstream: ripped out the 'do you want to add/remove spicevmc' when changing vnc->spice

virt-manager and virt-install will use spice + qxl + spicevmc as default everywhere unless the user expressly overrides it, that should be sufficient to put the right defaults in place. qxl and spice _should_ work but of course it's not that well tested so issues might arise, but we should deal with them if they exist since it's a useful debugging scenario