spice vga option in virt-manager for F13 virt-preview?

[Gianluca Cecchi]

Hello,
being in fc13 and installing today the virt-preview repo packages, I
was hoping to get qxl vga device available as option in virt-manager
too.
In fact I see that qemu has been updated to 0.13 version from
pre-existing 0.12 in stock FC13.
Correct? or if I want to test spice I have to run from command line my
guests? In this case which interaction with pre-existing ones managed
by virt-manager?
BTW, if merge in virt-manager of virt-preview repo is planned for qxl
vga, should I "simply" see the option when I try to modify hw for a
previous gest (aka created in FC13 0.12 qemu) or should I have to
change virtual hw in xml file for the guest or in other files?

Thanks in advance,
Gianluca

[Cole Robinson]

On 08/19/2010 09:34 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
>  Hello,
>  being in fc13 and installing today the virt-preview repo packages, I
>  was hoping to get qxl vga device available as option in virt-manager
>  too.
>  In fact I see that qemu has been updated to 0.13 version from
>  pre-existing 0.12 in stock FC13.
>  Correct? or if I want to test spice I have to run from command line my
>  guests? In this case which interaction with pre-existing ones managed
>  by virt-manager?
>  BTW, if merge in virt-manager of virt-preview repo is planned for qxl
>  vga, should I "simply" see the option when I try to modify hw for a
>  previous gest (aka created in FC13 0.12 qemu) or should I have to
>  change virtual hw in xml file for the guest or in other files? 
There are libvirt patches for spice support but they aren't upstream yet
AFAICT, as a result you can't get QXL/Spice by editting libvirt XML or
via virt-manager in Fedora.

When virt-manager supports QXL, it should just appear as a video model
option in VM Details->Video . The main blocker though is a graphical
spice widget which we can integrate into virt-manager proper, which
doesn't exist yet.

- Cole

[Tom Horsley]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:22:40 -0400
Cole Robinson wrote:

>  When virt-manager supports QXL, it should just appear as a video
> model
>  option in VM Details->Video . The main blocker though is a graphical
>  spice widget which we can integrate into virt-manager proper, which
>  doesn't exist yet. 
No chance for a temporary solution that just runs the spice viewer
as a separate process? (Actually I'd like that better anyway, I keep
doing things like closing the virt-manager window and being shocked
when my virt-viewer windows goes away at the same time :-).