Bug 876444 – RHEL guest cannot extend its desktop to 2nd monitor after connect to it with remote-viewer for several times

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Bug 876444 - RHEL guest cannot extend its desktop to 2nd monitor after connect to it with remote-viewer for several times

Summary:	RHEL guest cannot extend its desktop to 2nd monitor after connect to it with ...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	virt-viewer (Show other bugs)
Sub Component:
Version:	6.4
Hardware:	x86_64 Linux

Priority	high Severity high
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Assigned To:	Marc-Andre Lureau
QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs
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Duplicates:	908822 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:	960054 920988 947046
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Reported:	2012-11-14 02:35 EST by Geyang Kong
Modified:	2013-11-21 03:04 EST (History)
CC List:	15 users (show)

See Also:
Fixed In Version:	virt-viewer-0.5.6-1.el6
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Cause: Runing virt-viewer in fullscreen. Consequence: Randomly creates mirror monitors. Fix: Keep the association of client window and monitors. Result: Extra monitors are can no longer become mirror monitor randomly.
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Clones:	920988 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed:	2013-11-21 03:04:11 EST
Type:	Bug
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debug log (209.41 KB, text/plain) 2012-11-14 02:36 EST, Geyang Kong	no flags	Details
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External Trackers
Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2013:1578	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	virt-viewer bug fix and enhancement update	2013-11-20 16:39:50 EST

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Description Geyang Kong 2012-11-14 02:35:25 EST

Description of problem:
  RHEL guest cannot extend its desktop to 2nd monitor after connect to it with remote-viewer for several times.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
virt-viewer-0.5.2-16.el6.x86_64
spice-server-0.12.0-2.el6.x86_64
spice-glib-0.14-5.el6.x86_64
spice-gtk-tools-0.14-5.el6.x86_64
spice-gtk-python-0.14-5.el6.x86_64
spice-vdagent-0.8.1-3.el6.x86_64
spice-gtk-0.14-5.el6.x86_64
spice-protocol-0.12.2-1.el6.noarch

How reproducible:
Sometimes, about 95%

Reproduce steps:
1. Have a notebook computer and plugged another display to its VGA interface.
2. Install a rhel guest on it, make sure it has spice+qxl device and spicevmc channel.
3. Update spice-vdagent and xorg-x11-drv-qxl
4. Run remote-viewer spice://127.0.0.1:5900 --full-screen=auto-conf
5. Close remote-viewer.
6. Repeat step 4 and 5 for several times.

Actual results:
1. After step 6, 2nd monitor becomes to a mirrored one.

Expected results:
1. 2nd monitor should be an extended monitor.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Geyang Kong 2012-11-14 02:36:47 EST

Created attachment 644605 [details]
debug log

Comment 3 Marian Krcmarik 2012-12-04 14:52:23 EST

I can reproduce this:
1. Get dual screen physical setup.
2. Connect to a guest with remote-viewer.
3. Go to fullscreen (even with one guest screen VM).
4. change resolution within the guest

-> suddenly two mirrored screen shows up.

Note sure this is a bug of virt-viewer, mostl likely spice-vdagent.

Comment 6 Marc-Andre Lureau 2013-05-09 19:34:06 EDT

*** Bug 908822 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15 CongDong 2013-07-07 23:26:11 EDT

I can reproduce this bug:

Version and Steps are same as description.

result:
1. After step 6, 2nd monitor becomes to a mirrored one.

Verify:
# rpm -qa | grep spice
spice-gtk-0.20-1.el6.x86_64
spice-client-0.8.2-15.el6.x86_64
spice-glib-0.20-1.el6.x86_64
spice-vdagent-0.14.0-1.el6.x86_64
spice-server-0.12.3-1.el6.x86_64
spice-gtk-python-0.20-1.el6.x86_64
# rpm -qa virt-viewer
virt-viewer-0.5.6-1.el6.x86_64

Steps:
Same as description.

Result:
2nd monitor should be an extended monitor.

Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-21 03:04:11 EST

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-2013-1578.html

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