[libvirt] Can't scale XP on remote
Just starting out with an XP guest on Fedora 11 kvm. I'm using virt-manager to connect from a laptop. Server: kernel-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64 qemu-*-0.10.50-6.kvm86.fc11.x86_64 libvirt-0.6.4-2.fc11.x86_64 On the laptop: virt-manager-0.7.0-5.fc11.i586 libvirt-0.6.2-11.fc11.i586 The console comes, and XP runs fine. But, screen is scaled too large vertically for my laptop screen which is 1280x800. Only with fullscreen can I see the bottom menu bar. I would have assumed I could change the size of the screen (even if not the aspect ratio), but I can't. Am I doing something wrong, or is this just The Way Things Are? sean
I don't understand the distinction you are making between the "Server" and the "laptop". Are these separate physical machines? Can you explain this more -- what is this "Server" and how does it function? I'm wondering if I'm missing something important in my own virtualization work. How did you get libvirt 0.6.4? I only have 0.6.2: [rlc@deafeng3 ~]$ rpm -q libvirt libvirt-0.6.2-11.fc11.x86_64 Perhaps you got it through updates-testing? Thanks Bob On 06/07/2009 05:21 PM, sean darcy wrote:
Just starting out with an XP guest on Fedora 11 kvm. I'm using virt-manager to connect from a laptop.
Server: kernel-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64 qemu-*-0.10.50-6.kvm86.fc11.x86_64 libvirt-0.6.4-2.fc11.x86_64
On the laptop: virt-manager-0.7.0-5.fc11.i586 libvirt-0.6.2-11.fc11.i586
The console comes, and XP runs fine. But, screen is scaled too large vertically for my laptop screen which is 1280x800. Only with fullscreen can I see the bottom menu bar. I would have assumed I could change the size of the screen (even if not the aspect ratio), but I can't.
Am I doing something wrong, or is this just The Way Things Are?
sean
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Robert L Cochran wrote:
I don't understand the distinction you are making between the "Server" and the "laptop". Are these separate physical machines? Can you explain this more -- what is this "Server" and how does it function? I'm wondering if I'm missing something important in my own virtualization work.
How did you get libvirt 0.6.4? I only have 0.6.2:
[rlc@deafeng3 ~]$ rpm -q libvirt libvirt-0.6.2-11.fc11.x86_64
Perhaps you got it through updates-testing?
Thanks
Bob
On 06/07/2009 05:21 PM, sean darcy wrote:
Just starting out with an XP guest on Fedora 11 kvm. I'm using virt-manager to connect from a laptop.
Server: kernel-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64 qemu-*-0.10.50-6.kvm86.fc11.x86_64 libvirt-0.6.4-2.fc11.x86_64
On the laptop: virt-manager-0.7.0-5.fc11.i586 libvirt-0.6.2-11.fc11.i586
The console comes, and XP runs fine. But, screen is scaled too large vertically for my laptop screen which is 1280x800. Only with fullscreen can I see the bottom menu bar. I would have assumed I could change the size of the screen (even if not the aspect ratio), but I can't.
Am I doing something wrong, or is this just The Way Things Are?
sean
The server is a desktop server that runs qemu-kvm and libvirt. I connect to that server from my laptop using virt-manager. For newer spins, koji is your friend. Try http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=104926, get the src.rpm and rebuild. BTW, top-posting makes posts hard to read, sean
On 06/07/2009 10:53 PM, sean darcy wrote:
Robert L Cochran wrote:
I don't understand the distinction you are making between the "Server" and the "laptop". Are these separate physical machines? Can you explain this more -- what is this "Server" and how does it function? I'm wondering if I'm missing something important in my own virtualization work.
How did you get libvirt 0.6.4? I only have 0.6.2:
[rlc@deafeng3 ~]$ rpm -q libvirt libvirt-0.6.2-11.fc11.x86_64
Perhaps you got it through updates-testing?
Thanks
Bob
On 06/07/2009 05:21 PM, sean darcy wrote:
Just starting out with an XP guest on Fedora 11 kvm. I'm using virt-manager to connect from a laptop.
Server: kernel-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64 qemu-*-0.10.50-6.kvm86.fc11.x86_64 libvirt-0.6.4-2.fc11.x86_64
On the laptop: virt-manager-0.7.0-5.fc11.i586 libvirt-0.6.2-11.fc11.i586
The console comes, and XP runs fine. But, screen is scaled too large vertically for my laptop screen which is 1280x800. Only with fullscreen can I see the bottom menu bar. I would have assumed I could change the size of the screen (even if not the aspect ratio), but I can't.
Am I doing something wrong, or is this just The Way Things Are?
sean
The server is a desktop server that runs qemu-kvm and libvirt. I connect to that server from my laptop using virt-manager.
For newer spins, koji is your friend. Try http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=104926, get the src.rpm and rebuild.
BTW, top-posting makes posts hard to read,
sean
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Thank you Sean, I just never thought about a separate virtualization server. Makes perfect sense. And I've learned something new. Bob
sean darcy wrote:
Just starting out with an XP guest on Fedora 11 kvm. I'm using virt-manager to connect from a laptop.
Server: kernel-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64 qemu-*-0.10.50-6.kvm86.fc11.x86_64 libvirt-0.6.4-2.fc11.x86_64
On the laptop: virt-manager-0.7.0-5.fc11.i586 libvirt-0.6.2-11.fc11.i586
The console comes, and XP runs fine. But, screen is scaled too large vertically for my laptop screen which is 1280x800. Only with fullscreen can I see the bottom menu bar. I would have assumed I could change the size of the screen (even if not the aspect ratio), but I can't.
Am I doing something wrong, or is this just The Way Things Are?
sean
Ping. Is this the wrong list for this question? Or is there some FM I should Read? sean
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 04:02:05PM -0400, sean darcy wrote:
sean darcy wrote:
Just starting out with an XP guest on Fedora 11 kvm. I'm using virt-manager to connect from a laptop.
Server: kernel-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64 qemu-*-0.10.50-6.kvm86.fc11.x86_64 libvirt-0.6.4-2.fc11.x86_64
On the laptop: virt-manager-0.7.0-5.fc11.i586 libvirt-0.6.2-11.fc11.i586
The console comes, and XP runs fine. But, screen is scaled too large vertically for my laptop screen which is 1280x800. Only with fullscreen can I see the bottom menu bar. I would have assumed I could change the size of the screen (even if not the aspect ratio), but I can't.
Am I doing something wrong, or is this just The Way Things Are?
Is this the wrong list for this question? Or is there some FM I should Read?
The logic in the virt-manager and virt-viewer UI for scaling isn't really behaving nicely at this time. I have work in progress for virt-viewer to make it do a much better job in particular maintaining aspect ratio while scaling. Once that's working I'll do same to virt-manager In the mean time best solution is to reduce the resolutiuon in the XP guest itself, which will be honoured by the virt-manager window Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 04:02:05PM -0400, sean darcy wrote:
sean darcy wrote:
Just starting out with an XP guest on Fedora 11 kvm. I'm using virt-manager to connect from a laptop.
Server: kernel-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64 qemu-*-0.10.50-6.kvm86.fc11.x86_64 libvirt-0.6.4-2.fc11.x86_64
On the laptop: virt-manager-0.7.0-5.fc11.i586 libvirt-0.6.2-11.fc11.i586
The console comes, and XP runs fine. But, screen is scaled too large vertically for my laptop screen which is 1280x800. Only with fullscreen can I see the bottom menu bar. I would have assumed I could change the size of the screen (even if not the aspect ratio), but I can't.
Am I doing something wrong, or is this just The Way Things Are?
Is this the wrong list for this question? Or is there some FM I should Read?
The logic in the virt-manager and virt-viewer UI for scaling isn't really behaving nicely at this time. I have work in progress for virt-viewer to make it do a much better job in particular maintaining aspect ratio while scaling. Once that's working I'll do same to virt-manager
In the mean time best solution is to reduce the resolutiuon in the XP guest itself, which will be honoured by the virt-manager window
Daniel
Got it. Thanks Daniel. sean
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