[fedora-virt] fedora 19 virt-viewer VNC corruption

[Cole Robinson]

On 07/09/2013 09:12 AM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> I installed Fedora 19 and moved the VMs I was running on Fedora 17
> previously to it.  The VNC display is now corrupted--the desktop
> background is black and many widgets (the guest is Windows XP), making
> it pretty unusable.  Basically, it looks like it is failing to paint
> large blocks of the UI, but sometimes pieces of it reappear when
> clicking on menus, etc.  Is this a known issue with Fedora 19
> virt-viewer & VNC displays?
> 
> I tried getting Windows XP to install the Spice driver, but had
> problems way-back-when.  I suppose I could try again if VNC is no
> longer supported.

VNC should be working, so there's a bug somewhere.

Can you try plain vncviewer to see if it's virt-viewer specific? vncviewer
[listen]:[port] using the values from the <graphics> block in 'sudo virsh
dumpxml $vmname'

If that's still busted, it's probably a qemu bug. What <video> device is the
guest using? Try switch to cirrus or vga and rebooting the VM to see if that
narrows it down.

- Cole