Re: Fwd: Re: Spice display driver QLX Windows 10

[Klaus Hochlehnert <Mailings@xxxxxxxxx>]

I guess you can find the newest drivers here:

http://people.redhat.com/vrozenfe/qxlwddm/

 

 

From: Spice-devel [mailto:spice-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dominique
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2016 4:16 PM
To: spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Spice-devel] Fwd: Re: Spice display driver QLX Windows 10

 

Hi,

The current QXL driver is not Windows 10 compatible. Is there a new version in development or can I force the use of the current WDDM driver?

I use version 0.1-21 from http://www.spice-space.org/download/windows/qxl/

Thanks in advance,

Dominique.

-------- Doorgestuurd bericht --------

Onderwerp:	Re: Spice display driver QLX Windows 10
Datum:	Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:57:13 +0100
Van:	Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxx>
Aan:	Dominique <dominique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

 

Hi Dominique,

Please contact the spice ML:   

Regarding WDDM driver, I am not aware of recent development but please

see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84799 &

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895356

cheers

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Dominique

<dominique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear Mr. Lureau,

> 

> I had asked the same question on the libvirt user mailing list, but without

> getting any smarter. I see on github, you're very active on the spice

> repository. I hope it's ok I write to you personally for this and I thank

> you in advance for any information you want to share.

> 

> I work as the technical manager in a small company in Belgium (Cometal NV

> Formwork Constructions). I've migrated our servers to a Libvirt/KVM

> environment with success.

> 

> Some of the guys have a workstation at the office and a workstation at home

> or on the road. Having this great experience with our server migration, I

> wanted to start using the same environment to setup some virtual PC's. These

> mobile users then can get everywhere the same desktop through remote

> desktop.

> 

> I've also have discovered the spice-viewer. I would like to use the

> spice-viewer to connect to the virtual workstations starting from a Linux

> laptop/pc. I also would like to provide two monitors for some workstations.

> For this I should install the QXL video driver, right? I'm using this video

> driver with success on the servers. Sadly enough, the QXL driver won't

> install on Windows 10. And it seems, there isn't a QXL for Windows 10.

> 

> I also read there are two types of drivers: WDDM and XDDM. XDDM won't be

> supported as of Windows 8 and the WDDM driver development seems to be on

> hold (Last commit on Guthub 3 years ago)?

> 

> Do you know if there is or will be a Windows  10 compatible QXL driver

> available soon?

> 

> Thanks again in advance for any information you wan't to share.

> 

> Greetings,

> 

> Dominique Ramaekers

> Technical Manager

> Cometal NV

> 

-- 

Marc-André Lureau

 

 

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