8.229. virt-viewer

Bug Fixes

BZ#809546

When a guest was configured with two or more screens, these screens were not shown correctly on the respective client monitors. With this update, virt-viewer has been modified to place the guest screens correctly on the client monitors.

BZ#846127

Due to a bug in the spice-gtk utility, when a virtual machine was started in full screen mode, the guest screen resolution could not be changed afterwards. Consequently, the resolution always reverted to the native monitor resolution. This bug has been fixed, and the screen resolution can now be changed without complications.

BZ#856682

Previously, when a Gtk+ menu was open during certain operation that modified its content, an attempt to recreate this menu could cause the client to become unresponsive. With this update, instead of recreating the whole menu, virt-viewer repopulates the existing one. As a result, the risk of client freeze is now reduced in the aforementioned scenario.

BZ#864929

Prior to this update, when the client was in full screen mode, it was not possible to set up screen resolution higher than the native resolution of the monitor. The underlying source code has been modified and resolutions higher than the monitor native resolution can now be configured in full screen mode.

BZ#870710

Previously, keyboard events were not sent to the guest when it was suspended, therefore the guest could not be woken up. This bug has been fixed, and all keyboard events are now sent to the guest, regardless of its state. As a result, pressing a key now wakes up the guest as expected.

BZ#875697

When the guest was shut down while the client was still connected, the following message was displayed:

Unable to connect to the graphic server

With this update, virt-viewer has been modified not to report an error on normal disconnection. As a result, the error message is no longer displayed in the described case.

BZ#876444

Previously, when virt-viewer ran in full screen mode, the mirror monitors were created randomly. This update modifies virt-viewer to maintain the association of client window and monitors. As a result, the additional monitors are no longer mirrored randomly.

BZ#876445

Prior to this update, the title bar of the client window became invisible when virt-viewer was leaving the full screen state. This bug has been fixed an the client window title bar is now visible and reachable when leaving full screen.

BZ#886570

Previously, when virt-viewer was switched to full screen mode, multiple monitor displays in both client and guest appeared to have the same resolution, even though the monitors were different. This bug has been fixed, and monitors now display resolution according to their actual capacity.

BZ#890297

Prior to this update, after closing the virt-viewer guest terminal, the I/O error was written to the libvirtd.log file. With this update, libvirt events and callbacks are unregistered when closing the guest terminal, and I/O errors are no longer logged in the aforementioned scenario.

BZ#908057

When the automatically resize option was disabled in remote-viewer and the screen resolution on the guest machine was changed, this change was not accepted and the resolution reverted back to the previous state. With this update, remote-viewer has been modified to keep monitor configuration synchronized with the guest, even when automatic resize is disabled.

BZ#908408

Due to an unnecessary message returned by virt-viewer, when attempting to connect to a multi-monitor guest in full screen mode, secondary monitors sometimes kept flashing in a loop. Now, the message about additional monitor reconfiguration has been removed and extra monitors no longer flash when in full screen mode.

BZ#913601

Prior to this update, in a multi-monitor guest setup, the sendkey menu was incorrectly placed on the secondary monitors. With this update, virt-viewer has been modified to correctly translate the menu coordinates based on the top level window position. As a result, the sendkey menu is now correctly placed on secondary monitors.

BZ#924577

After pressing the Alt+S key combination or other menu accelerators the guest kept the Alt state enabled. Consequently, certain guest functionality did not work correctly. With this update, the guest Alt keys are properly released when the keyboard grab is taken in the client user interface, thus fixing this bug.

BZ#982840

Previously, virt-viewer was not able to connect to the libvirt guest console configured with only SPICE TLS autoport. With this update, the setup logic has been modified to check the presence of any port, plain or TLS. As a result, virt-viewer can now connect successfully to thethe TLS-only guest.

BZ#990883

When an invalid password was entered for a Spice session, no error message was shown. Now, the authentication failure is handled properly and an error dialog is shown if Spice password is invalid.

Enhancements

BZ#864026

This update modifies the virt-viewer startup behavior when started from the command line without any parameters. Now, the connection dialog handles errors, and allows to correct the connection details and to try a new connection.

BZ#904091

This update adds the --title STRING option to remote-viewer, which makes it possible to override the default window title with user-defined text.

BZ#904094

This update adds the --hotkeys option that enables hotkey configuration from the command line.

BZ#905684

With this update, virt-viewer has been modified to show a dialog window when closing a single monitor session. This dialog asks for users' confirmation and contains an option to not be shown again.

BZ#908805

This update allows to setup a remote-viewer session from a file, for example from the RHEVM portal, via a simple browser link, without the need for a browser-specific plug-in or multi-process communication.