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An HTML5 management interface for KVM guests
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spice does not work well on Windows guests #642

Open jimsalterjrs opened 9 years ago

jimsalterjrs commented 9 years ago

hilariously-broken-spice-kimchi

Elements in spice are variously upside down, in the wrong place, you name it. Actually the majority of what's rendered is rendered in the correct place on the screen, but upside down, as you can see in the screenshot. Also some of the text is... I dunno, some kind of faux Cyrillic maybe? Looks like a teenager from the late 90s' version of "awesome".

SPICE control works normally from virt-manager on this same machine. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

jimsalterjrs commented 9 years ago

VNC control works well in Kimchi on this machine, also, btw.

cd1 commented 9 years ago

This looks like an issue with the SPICE viewer + Windows guests, as I've controlled several Linux guests using SPICE and I've never seen this problem before.

We'll look into that.

jimsalterjrs commented 9 years ago

I concur - switched an Ubuntu server guest over to SPICE, and had no issues with it and Kimchi.

cd1 commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the feedback!

laggarcia commented 9 years ago

Isn't that an issue with the SPICE driver installed on the Windows guest? Is there a newer version than the one you are using available?

cd1 commented 9 years ago

According to this other bug, it seems that uninstalling the driver qxl on the Windows guest works around the problem. But I'm still wondering if there's something we can do on our side (Kimchi + spice-html5 client) to avoid it, without relying on guest changes. After all, the SPICE client used by virt-manager displays the images correctly even with that Windows driver.