[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#648261: libvirt-bin: Multihead SPICE/QXL with Windows Guest fails to use second head

[Donald Gordon]

Package: libvirt-bin
Version: 0.9.6-2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

libvirt-bin starts up qxl PCI devices (all but the first) with
multifunction=on.  This isn't supported by the Windows QXL drivers, so the
extra heads don't work.  The sort of KVM commandline this results in looks
like:

-vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=67108864 -device
qxl,id=video1,vram_size=67108864,bus=pci.0,multifunction=on,addr=0x5.0x0

This has been fixed in the Fedora libvirt package.  Could the same patch be
applied to the Debian one?

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-
announce/2011-October/067693.html

I've tested this with 0.9.7~rc2 from experimental, and it has the same problem.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libvirt-bin depends on:
ii  adduser 3.112                            add and remove users and groups
ii  gettext 0.18.1.1-1                       GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  libavah 0.6.30-5                         Avahi client library
ii  libavah 0.6.30-5                         Avahi common library
ii  libblki 2.19.1-5                         block device id library
ii  libc6   2.13-21                          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcap- 0.6.6-1                          An alternate POSIX capabilities li
ii  libdevm 2:1.02.65-1                      Linux Kernel Device Mapper userspa
ii  libgcry 1.4.6-5                          LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgnut 2.12.10-2                        GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libnl1  1.1-7                            library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libpart 2.3-8                            disk partition manipulator - share
ii  libpcap 1.1.1-8                          system interface for user-level pa
ii  libpcia 0.12.1-1                         Generic PCI access library for X
ii  libread 6.2-4                            GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsasl 2.1.24~rc1.dfsg1+cvs2011-05-23-6 Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii  libudev 172-1                            libudev shared library
ii  libvirt 0.9.6-2                          library for interfacing with diffe
ii  libxens 4.1.1-2                          Xenstore communications library fo
ii  libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-4                     GNOME XML library
ii  libyajl 1.0.12-1                         Yet Another JSON Library
ii  logrota 3.7.8-6                          Log rotation utility

Versions of packages libvirt-bin recommends:
ii  bridge-utils              1.4-5          Utilities for configuring the Linu
ii  dmidecode                 2.9-1.2        Dump Desktop Management Interface 
ii  dnsmasq-base              2.58-2         Small caching DNS proxy and DHCP/T
ii  ebtables                  2.0.9.2-2      Ethernet bridge frame table admini
ii  gawk                      1:3.1.7.dfsg-5 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii  iproute                   20100519-3     networking and traffic control too
ii  iptables                  1.4.12-1       administration tools for packet fi
ii  libxml2-utils             2.7.8.dfsg-4   XML utilities
ii  netcat-openbsd            1.89-4         TCP/IP swiss army knife
ii  parted                    2.3-8          disk partition manipulator
ii  qemu                      0.14.1+dfsg-3  fast processor emulator
ii  qemu-kvm                  0.15.0+dfsg-2  Full virtualization on x86 hardwar

Versions of packages libvirt-bin suggests:
ii  policykit-1                   0.102-1    framework for managing administrat
pn  radvd                         <none>     (no description available)

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