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Bug 1043874

Summary: gnome-boxes: fails to update screen
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Component: gnome-boxesAssignee: Zeeshan Ali <zeenix>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version: 7.0CC: fweimer, mclasen, vbenes
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Target Release: 7.1   
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Description Florian Weimer 2013-12-17 11:53:03 UTC
When creating a new VM based on an USB stick, after clicking on "New", "Continue", selecting "sdb", the contents of the gnome-boxes window stays black.  The next step (with the "Create" button) only appears if I switch to another application and switch back.

This was observed on an HP 635 laptop with AMD graphics, and gnome-boxes-3.8.3-2.el7.

Comment 2 Zeeshan Ali 2014-01-07 13:20:41 UTC
Sounds like a clutter/gtk issue.

Comment 5 Vladimir Benes 2015-05-05 12:11:47 UTC
(In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #0)
> When creating a new VM based on an USB stick, after clicking on "New",
> "Continue", selecting "sdb", the contents of the gnome-boxes window stays
> black.  The next step (with the "Create" button) only appears if I switch to
> another application and switch back.
> 
> This was observed on an HP 635 laptop with AMD graphics, and
> gnome-boxes-3.8.3-2.el7.

Not sure if I am able to follow your instructions. How are you exactly starting usb based VM? I think this functionality was removed from RHEL7, wasn't it?

Comment 6 Florian Weimer 2015-05-05 13:50:47 UTC
(In reply to Vladimir Benes from comment #5)
> Not sure if I am able to follow your instructions. How are you exactly
> starting usb based VM? I think this functionality was removed from RHEL7,
> wasn't it?

At the time I wrote the bug report, gnome-boxes would react to plugged-in USB sticks (with a bootable operating system on them)  and offer to start them as a new VM.

Comment 7 Vladimir Benes 2015-05-06 11:08:25 UTC
(In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #6)
> (In reply to Vladimir Benes from comment #5)
> > Not sure if I am able to follow your instructions. How are you exactly
> > starting usb based VM? I think this functionality was removed from RHEL7,
> > wasn't it?
> 
> At the time I wrote the bug report, gnome-boxes would react to plugged-in
> USB sticks (with a bootable operating system on them)  and offer to start
> them as a new VM.

ok, then I am closing this one.