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

[Guido Günther]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 03:21:20PM +1300, Donald Gordon wrote:
> 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.
Can you isolate and test the patch and attach it to the bugreport? I
don't have a setup to test this.
Chees,
 -- Guido