[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#862869: Bug#862869: virt-viewer: Broken resizing

[Guido Günther]

Hi Cyril,
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 11:34:31PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Package: virt-viewer
> Version: 1.0-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> [ x-d-cc: debian-boot at lists.debian.org ]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've tried configuring resizing as automatic/always, and it seems
> virt-viewer can't do that. I've got a simple setup with a local qemu

What did you do to configure this?

> server and the switch from 640x480 to 800x600 when Debian Installer
> switches from syslinux boot prompt to X11 doesn't happen. Even worse,
> it's quite common that forcing a resize doesn't work.
> 
> Also, when resetting the VM to get back to the boot screen, the inverse
> resize doesn't happen either. And I can't resize the window by dragging
> its borders.
> 
> Reproduced with 1.0-1 on stable and with 5.0-1 in a sid chroot,
> connecting to the same libvirt.
> 
> I've also tried switching from default spice to vnc, still no luck.
> 
> Any help/suggestion welcome, it prevents me from automating d-i tests
> with libvirt. (While they do run fine with a “bare” kvm.)

This works for me since ages (and I just double checked with a VM
running the text console and X) that has this in the live xml output:

    <video>
      <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='16384' heads='1' primary='yes'/>
      <alias name='video0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
    </video>
    <graphics type='spice' port='5900' autoport='yes' listen='127.0.0.1'>
      <listen type='address' address='127.0.0.1'/>
      <image compression='off'/>
    </graphics>

I've not set any options related to resizing zooming. So no --fullscreen
and no --zoom and I don't know about any other options.
Cheers,
 -- Guido