Description of problem: - virt-viewer opens all QXL displays configured for VM - virt-manager, if VM is opened, opens only the first display And there is even no options to make virtual-manager to switch to second or third display. ---------------------------------------- Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): --- Name : virt-manager Arch : noarch Version : 1.0.1 Release : 3.fc20 --- Name : virt-viewer Arch : x86_64 Version : 0.6.0 Release : 1.fc20 ---------------------------------------- How reproducible: Follow this wiki to configure multiple heads: http://www.spice-space.org/page/MultiHeadVirtManagerWindowsGuests The wiki tells about Windows VM which requires SPICE tools, drivers, etc. I guess Linux (i.e. Fedora) as VM should work with QXL displays out of the box. Make sure all displays can be opened by virt-viewer (there will be separate virt-viewer window per display): sudo virt-viewer VM_NAME ---------------------------------------- Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open virt-manager window, enter password if required. 2. Find VM_NAME in the list and double-click to open it. 3. In the VM window click on "View" menue, select "Console" (rather than "Details") to see display output. ---------------------------------------- Actual results: There is just a single VM display window shown by virt-manager even if the same VM opened by virt-viewer shows all displays (3 in my case). ---------------------------------------- Expected results: It should be possible to show either all VM displays or be able to choose which one (i.e. from "View" menu). ---------------------------------------- Additional info: Complains only... - The fact that two tools from the same family (virt-manager and virt-viewer) behave differently makes it very confusing. In fact, before this bug became clear, I didn't even knew about or looked for separate virt-viewer - I thought they are integrated and all virt-manager does is opens virt-viewer on double click. I was able to "view" VM in virt-manager. And virt-viewer sounded like a mere synonym for virt-manager. - Setting up multiple displays becomes a troubleshooting headache. People simply don't know and confused that there is a separate application virt-viewer which is the _only_ one to show all displays (not the "Virtual Manager" which they have been using all this time to work with VMs). - It's just painfully inconvenient. To select VM from the list, to manage it, to do everything in VMs with single display, you go to virt-manager - 80% of time is fine. And _only_ if you realize that one VM has actually several QXL displays, you should go to command line and type `virt-viewer VM_NAME` after _actually_ opening "Virtual Manager" to double check this and whether "VM_NAME" is correct spelling - 20% of time is pain. And there is no apparent reason why all 100% of time should be fine too.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 885806 ***