Eureka! Although virt-manager defaults to Scale Display only when full screen, the option "auto-resize VM with window" is unchecked. After checking it the resolution changed accordingly. As a bonus, the entries below made the QEMU Guest agent work properly. Thank you all for the help. I really apologize if this is too basic but this will help me tremendously. Carlos On Tue, 2017-06-13 at 13:02 +0300, Uri Lublin wrote: > On 06/13/2017 12:04 AM, guidugli@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hi Uri, > > > > I use virt-manager (1.4.1-2) to install and run virtual machines. > > QEMU > > version is 2.7.1-6 (latest fedora 25 stable). > > > > Below you can see the definition of the Win 7 VM I built just to > > perform the tests with resolution. I did not added anything other > > than > > the default. > > > > The "QEMU Guest Agent VSS Provider" and "Spice VDAgent" services > > are > > started but the "QEMU Guest Agent" is not (gives the following > > error > > when I try to start it: Error 1053: The service did not respond to > > the > > start or control request in a timely fashion.". This is the same > > behaviour on Win 10. > > It seems the virtio-port for QEMU Guest Agent is missing. > > You can add a channel for it in virt-manager. The XML section is: > <channel type='unix'> > <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/> > <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' > port='2'/> > </channel> > > > Uri. _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel