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Bug 919530

Summary: Virt-Viewer: Win764 guest does not show available 2nd display for multimonitor
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager Reporter: Vimal Patel <vipatel>
Component: mingw-virt-viewerAssignee: Marc-Andre Lureau <marcandre.lureau>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 3.2.0CC: acathrow, cfergeau, jbiddle, pvine, tjamrisk
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Target Release: 3.2.0   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Windows   
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Fixed In Version: mingw-virt-viewer-0.5.3-23.el6ev Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Previously, when connecting to a guest machine configured with multiple qxl device monitors, the remote-viewer display menu did not list all available guest monitors. Now, spice-gtk correctly handles multiple display channels, allowing the remote-viewer to list all available monitors.
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: 922283 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-06-10 20:03:52 UTC Type: Bug
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Screenshot of Win 7 guest with 2 monitors setup in RHEVM and on guest, but remote-viewer only shows 1 display available. none

Description Vimal Patel 2013-03-08 18:18:38 UTC
Created attachment 707161 [details]
Screenshot of Win 7 guest with 2 monitors setup in RHEVM and on guest, but remote-viewer only shows 1 display available.

Description of problem:
Setup a Win7 guest (installed RHEV tools 3.2.4 and updated spice vdagent, verified in Device Manager of guest it has 2 display adapters Red Hat qxl gpu), when connect from a client with 2 monitors, virt-viewer doesn't show an available 2nd display from View->Displays, only one.

*Note: (multimonitor worked fine for the same client using a RHEL 6.4 guest)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Testing with a Win7_64bit client & guest
RHEVM 3.2 sf9
Win 7 64 guest, RHEV-tools 3.2.4, with updated spice agent: vdagent-win-0.1-15
RV client:rhevm-spice-client-x64-cab-3.2-2


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
Only one available display is shown.

Expected results:
See two available displays

Additional info:

Comment 1 Marc-Andre Lureau 2013-03-08 18:33:24 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Created attachment 707161 [details]
> Screenshot of Win 7 guest with 2 monitors setup in RHEVM and on guest, but
> remote-viewer only shows 1 display available.
> 
> Description of problem:
> Setup a Win7 guest (installed RHEV tools 3.2.4 and updated spice vdagent,
> verified in Device Manager of guest it has 2 display adapters Red Hat qxl
> gpu), when connect from a client with 2 monitors, virt-viewer doesn't show
> an available 2nd display from View->Displays, only one.
>

This menu is dynamic only when the guest has dynamic multi-monitor config.

Is the guest 2nd monitor enabled?

Comment 2 Vimal Patel 2013-03-13 18:50:19 UTC
Hi Marc-Andre,

Yes I checked in DeviceManger and both monitors are enabled, and the 2nd display is not shown by remote-viewer.  

I disabled one of the monitors from DeviceManager and restarted the system, and then remote-viewer shows me two displays, one of which is black and unusable.  If I then enable and start the RHEV Spice Agent (which gets shutdown after system restart after disabling one of the monitors) the 2nd display it works properly; however, after closing out remote-viewer (both monitors enabled) and launching it again from the UP/PUP it only shows one display.

And the 2nd one won't show up until I again disable one of the monitors and restart the VM and start the same process over again.

Comment 3 Marc-Andre Lureau 2013-03-16 00:08:17 UTC
sent patches to ML, it needs some fixes on vdagent side too.
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2013-March/012775.html

Comment 4 Marc-Andre Lureau 2013-03-27 13:13:50 UTC
in mingw-spice-gtk 0.14-5

Comment 7 Tomas Jamrisko 2013-03-29 13:43:15 UTC
Well, it shows the second monitor now. 

However there are a few problems -> the monitors are incredibly persistent and don't like being closed/disabled. (They get reactived even after they are disabled from windows display configuration utility). Now, this probably depends and has something to do with a bunch of other bugs. Should it be switched back to assigned?

Comment 9 Vimal Patel 2013-04-16 14:26:47 UTC
Verifed that mingw-virt-viewer-0.5.3-23.el6ev, now has the 2nd monitor enabled form the View Display options when doing multimonitor, 

*tested it with Windows 7 client x86_64 and Windows 7 x86_64 guest

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2013-06-10 20:03:52 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/RHEA-2013-0889.html