Bug 967154

Summary:	virt-viewer does not respect auto configuration of monitors
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager	Reporter:	Bryan Yount <byount>
Component:	mingw-virt-viewer	Assignee:	Marc-Andre Lureau <marcandre.lureau>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	3.1.3	CC:	acathrow, cfergeau, cpelland, dblechte, iheim, marcandre.lureau, mkrcmari, ssekidde
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	ZStream
Target Release:	3.3.0
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:	spice
Fixed In Version:	mingw-virt-viewer-0.5.6-3.el6_4	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Previously, virt-viewer did not respect the automatic configuration of monitors as set by the client machine. Now, monitor settings are respected by virt-viewer and no longer need to be manually changed every time the virtual machine is restarted.	Story Points:	---
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Clones:	973664 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2014-01-21 14:45:48 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	Spice	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Blocks:	973664

Description Bryan Yount 2013-05-25 01:33:21 UTC

Description of problem:
The virt-viewer Spice client does not respect the auto-conf setting passed from controller. This results in a guest being configured for 2 displays and not automatically enabling the 2nd monitor if the user has 2 monitors on their client machine.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-viewer-0.5.3-25 (3.2 beta client)

How reproducible:
Very

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create VM with only 1 display configured
2. Install rhev-tools-3.1-9
3. Seal the VM with sysprep utility and create a template from it
4. Create a pool of VMs from that template and configure them to have 2 displays


Actual results:
Users connect with virt-viewer and *only 1 display* appears. The user has to open the Windows display GUI and enable the 2nd monitor manually.

Expected results:
The configuration of the VM to have 2 displays should cause virt-viewer to detect if the client also has 2 displays and automatically open up (enable) the 2nd display in the guest.


Additional info:
This is a big enough issue that I am formally requesting a GA (or if that's not possible, a Z stream) patch to 3.2.

Here's what the behavior was with the old spicec:
1. Create VM with only 1 display configured
2. Install rhev-tools-3.1-9
3. Seal the VM with sysprep utility and create a template from it
4. Create a pool of VMs from that template and configure them to have 2 displays
5. Users connect with old spicec and 2 displays appear

Comment 2 Marc-Andre Lureau 2013-05-27 12:30:00 UTC

patch sent:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2013-May/msg00088.html

This bug is the result of a lack of specification (there was a FIXME in the code). It has not been reported before, after 1y of RHEL6 and 6 months of RHEVM integration. I think we could just reconsider the severity. Fortunately, the solution is simple.

Comment 8 Charlie 2013-11-28 01:26:37 UTC

This bug is currently attached to errata RHEA-2013:15512. If this change is not to be documented in the text for this errata please either remove it from the errata, set the requires_doc_text flag to 
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Otherwise to aid in the development of relevant and accurate release documentation, please fill out the "Doc Text" field above with these four (4) pieces of information:

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* Consequence: What happens when the bug presents.
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Thanks in advance.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2014-01-21 14:45:48 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-0034.html