The patches adding a way for the client to set its preferred compression method added a new capability so that the server can indicate support for this feature. However, spice-server was not setting this capability on its display channel, which means clients are not going to try to send 'preferred-compression' messages even though the user request it. --- server/red_dispatcher.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/server/red_dispatcher.c b/server/red_dispatcher.c index 6d7756c..b11cd42 100644 --- a/server/red_dispatcher.c +++ b/server/red_dispatcher.c @@ -1153,6 +1153,7 @@ void red_dispatcher_init(QXLInstance *qxl) red_channel_register_client_cbs(display_channel, &client_cbs); red_channel_set_data(display_channel, red_dispatcher); red_channel_set_cap(display_channel, SPICE_DISPLAY_CAP_MONITORS_CONFIG); + red_channel_set_cap(display_channel, SPICE_DISPLAY_CAP_PREF_COMPRESSION); red_channel_set_cap(display_channel, SPICE_DISPLAY_CAP_STREAM_REPORT); reds_register_channel(display_channel); } -- 2.4.3 _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel