7.268. virt-viewer

Bug Fixes

BZ#814150

The remote-viewer and the virt-viewer tools, both use the same constant to print their usage message. Consequently, when the user used an unknown command option with the remote-viewer command, the error message referred to the virt-viewer --help command instead of the remote-viewer --help command. With this update, the remote-viewer and virt-viewer code has been modified so that the commands now return the correct error message when used with an unknown option.

BZ#822794

When connected to a guest using the virt-viewer -v command and the console was closed, the command prompt was printed at the end of the last line instead of the new line. This update fixes this bug and the command prompt is printed correctly.

BZ#832121

If the XML listen attribute contained a string consisting of the colon (“:”) and zero (“0”) characters, virt-viewer did not treat the string as a wildcard address and did not create an appropriate remote host address as expected. Consequently, an attempt to connect to a remote host with such an address led to the connection failure. This update modifies the underlying source code to treat the aforementioned characters as wildcards and virt-viewer now successfully connects to a remote host in the described scenario.

BZ#854318

Due to changes in the latest upstream version of the spice-gtk packages, virt-viewer stopped working with the new spice-gtk module. With this update, the virt-viewer packages have been rebuilt to work properly with this new version of spice-gtk.

BZ#856610

Previously, the automatic window resize option did not work correctly with the remote-viewer client. When disabling and then re-enabling the automatic window size, the resized window was smaller then expected. This update provides a patch to fix this bug and the automatic window resize option now works properly.

BZ#856678

Within certain non-US keyboard layouts, keyboard shortcuts using the “Alt” key and another character worked even if they were disabled in a virtual machine. This update applies a patch that fixes this bug and keyboard shortcuts are now disabled as expected.

BZ#864929

Previously, when the virt-viewer client was sized to the full screen, the virt-viewer size resolution could not be set to a higher resolution than the monitor's native resolution. With this update, the user is now able to set a higher resolution than the monitor's native resolution.

BZ#867248

When connecting to a SPICE guest and the user input an incorrect graphic password first, a later attempt to connect using the correct password was unsuccessful, and the virt-viewer tool terminated unexpectedly. This update modifies the underlying code so that virt-viewer no longer crashes in the described scenario.

BZ#867459

When connecting to the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portal and the remote-viewer client was started from the XPI plug-in, the client terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. This update modifies the underlying code and applies a patch to fix this bug so that remote-viewer now works as expected in this situation.

BZ#881020

Previously, when using remote-viewer to display multiple screens of a virtual machine with multiple physical displays, under certain circumstances, remote-viewer could display only one screen in single remote-viewer window and the other screens were disconnected. With this update, the underlying code has been modified so that all physical displays are now properly displayed in the respective remote-viewer windows.

Enhancements

BZ#828339

This enhancement provides the new --title option which allows the user to specify a title displayed in the remote-viewer window title bar.

BZ#842305

With this update, the virt-viewer tool supports the SpiceMonitorsConfig display message.

BZ#865793

The virt-viewer tool is now able to handle requests from the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portal to enable or disable passing of the Ctrl+Alt+Delete key combination to the guest operating system.

BZ#875126

Screenshots can be currently saved only in the PNG format. With this update, the “.png” suffix is automatically added to the screenshot file name if is it missing.