From: Victor Toso <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> It is not relevant nowadays that *spicec* client was removed and even monitors_config does not reach spice-vdagent in modern Guests. Also add block quote for qemu cmdline and system's paths to make it easier to copy-and-paste. Signed-off-by: Victor Toso <victortoso@xxxxxxxxxx> --- README.md | 34 +++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 67a66a5..82a0103 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -23,36 +23,28 @@ Features: * Support for transferring files from the client to the agent * Full support for multiple displays using Xrandr, this requires a new enough xorg-x11-drv-qxl driver, as well as a new enough host. -* Limited support for multiple displays using Xinerama, prerequisites: - * A new enough Xorg server: Fedora 17 or greater, for RHEL 6 - xorg-x11-server-1.10.4-6.el6_2.3 or greater. - * A vm configured with multiple qxl devices - * A guest running the latest spice-vdagent - Then connect to the vm with the multiple monitor client which you want to - use it with using: "spicec --full-screen=auto-config" (or the user portal - equivalent). At this point the agent will write out a: - /run/spice-vdagentd/xorg.conf.spice file. With all the necessary magic - to get Xinerama working. Move this file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, then kill - Xorg so that it will get restarted and you should be good to go. +* Limited support for multiple displays using Xinerama. * Limited support for setups with multiple Screens (multiple qxl devices each - mapped to their own screen), limitations: - -Max one monitor per Screen / qxl device - -All monitors / Screens must have the same resolution - -No client -> guest resolution syncing + mapped to their own screen) All vdagent communications on the guest side run over a single pipe which gets presented to the guest os as a virtio serial port. Under windows this virtio serial port has the following name: -\\\\.\\Global\\com.redhat.spice.0 +>>> + \\\\.\\Global\\com.redhat.spice.0 +>>> Under Linux this virtio serial port has the following name: -/dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0 +>>> + /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0 +>>> To enable the virtio serial port you need to pass the following params on the qemu cmdline: --device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 \ --chardev spicevmc,name=vdagent,id=vdagent \ --device \ -virtserialport,nr=1,bus=virtio-serial0.0,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.spice.0 +>>> + -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=16,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5 \ + -chardev spicevmc,name=vdagent,id=vdagent \ + -device virtserialport,nr=1,bus=virtio-serial0.0,chardev=vdagent,name=com.redhat.spice.0 +>>> -- 2.20.1 _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel