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Description of problem: I have a 4 display guest running (W7-64) and I diable display 2 through the view menu of the display 2 window. The display goes away and as the remaining windows refresh display 2 is started up again. Also when looking at the view menu I see display 3 as greyed out but it remains active and working properly. Then if I disable display 2 again through it's view menu it goes away for good and display 4 becomes black and says :waiting for display 4...". In order to get display 4 back I have to go into screen res and extend the desktop to that screen. This may be directly related to bug 868970.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Client: RHEL 6.4 64bit
virt-viewer-0.5.2-18.el6_4.2.x86_64
spice-gtk-0.14-7.el6.x86_64
Guest: Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit
RHEV-Tools 3.2.5 with vdagent-win-0.1-17
How reproducible: Every time after the initial connection to the guest.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect to guest with 4 displays configured. Make sure the are all enabled in viewer. Exit and reconnect if needed.
2.Disbale display 2 through view menu of display 2 window.
3.Notice that display 2 reappears after the windows refresh.
4.Notice display 3 is greyed out but still usable.
5. Disable display 2 again.
6. Notice that display 2 is gone, display 3 is not greyed out in the menu, and that display 4 is now a black screen with message "Waiting for display 4...".
Actual results:
See steps
Expected results:
Display 2 disabled, nothing greyed out in menu.
Additional info:
Comment 1Marc-Andre Lureau
2013-05-08 15:46:03 UTC
urgh.. we have many bugs there
- windows vdagent doesnt support sparse monitors bug 953973
- vdagent crashes with some 4 monitor config 957245
Please try again once those bugs are fixed. (my guess is you'll find other multimonitors bugs which are already reported elsewhere)
Tried again since both of those bugs are fixed. I have the same client but am now using guest tool 3.2.7 which has vdagent-win-3.3-2.
Current behaviour:
1. Connect to guest with 4 displays configured. Make sure the are all enabled in viewer. Exit and reconnect if needed.
2. Disable display 2 through view menu of display 2 window.
3. Display 2 is gone (does not come back), display 4 goes black (waiting...), and one time only I lost the visible mouse in display 3.
4. I re-enable display 2 from the view displays and it reappears correctly and also brings back display 4.
5. If I now look at the display menu 1-3 are selectable and selected but display 4 is grayed out (and selected).
5. I disconnect using file-quit and reconnect. All displays appear and are selectable through the menu.
6. Disconnect display 2 through menu and it goes away and immediately reappears. All 4 displays are active but menu shows display 4 as grayed out.
Comment 3Marc-Andre Lureau
2013-12-12 17:17:11 UTC
if this is windows guest only, I suggest to move the bug to windows vdagent.
I tried testing this on RHEL6 and wast not able to reproduce. I used the following client versions:
virt-viewer-0.5.6-8.el6.x86_64
virt-viewer-0.5.2-18.el6_4.2.x86_64
However, I did have a more recent spice-gtk installed (0.20.x). So I tried again on another system with spice-gtk-0.14-7.el6.x86_64, and was able to reproduce the behavior you mention in comment 2.
My conclusion is that this bug was in spice-gtk and it has already be fixed. Since this bug has a rhel-6.6.0? flag, I'm closing this bug.