[virt-tools-list] [PATCH 10/12] Resize guest desktop with SPICE

[Marc-André Lureau]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> Enabling guest resize is fine in principle, but we can't do it
> unconditionally like this. We can to take into account that not
> everyone has the guest agent installed, and also that if you don't
> have the QXL card, the resize behaviour is unusably bad because
> it jumps between a mere 3 guest resolutions

If the guest agent isn't installed, it will just scale up, like VNC.

I am not aware of "jumps between a mere 3 guest resolutions"

> There should be a boolean property to enable guest initiated
> resizes, we should default to false. In virt-viewer we can look
> at the XML to figure out if SPICE is configured with QXL + guest
> agent and enable it.  We can also add a CLI arg to force enablement.

What's the difference? if the guest is not able to resize, it will
scale. The only thing it won't keep aspect ratio. But I think this
should be solved in spice-gtk instead, and not with complicated gtk
resize tricks.

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Marc-André Lureau