Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 240233
Can't set display for <graphics type='sdl'/>
Last modified: 2009-01-22 08:07:34 EST
Description of problem: The old-style /etc/xen config files let me set up the internal viewer on some X display like this: vfb = ["type=sdl,display=:0"] With the new configuration stuff, I need to edit the output of virsh dumpxml, then load it back with virsh define. Changing from the default <graphics type='vnc' port='5900'/> to <graphics type='sdl' display='localhost:0'/> doesn't quite work: virsh define silently ignores the display attribute. This renders the builtin viewer unusable. Same problem may exist for other attributes. See docs/man/xmdomain.cfg.pod.5 in the Xen source tree for the list of documented attributes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libvirt-0.2.2-4.fc7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. virsh dumpxml FOO >FOO.xml 2. edit FOO.xml as indicated above. 3. virsh define FOO.xml 4. virsh dumpxml FOO | grep graph Actual results: Step 4 output is <graphics type='sdl'/> Expected results: Step 4 output should be <graphics type='sdl' display='localhost:0'/> Additional info:
Yep, libvirt doesn't really seriously support SDL graphics at all. Lack of support for passing around 'display' is just one example. There's a bunch of 'XXX' flags in the code wrt to fixing this stuff up. Its doable, just needs a little coding.
Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported against rawhide during the development of a Fedora release that is no longer maintained. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained. If this bug remains in NEEDINFO thirty (30) days from now, we will automatically close it. If you can reproduce this bug in a maintained Fedora version (7, 8, or rawhide), please change this bug to the respective version and change the status to ASSIGNED. (If you're unable to change the bug's version or status, add a comment to the bug and someone will change it for you.) Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we're following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again.
This bug is still relevant today.
*** Bug 427690 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
This was fixed in release 0.5.1 of libvirt.