Bug 99965

Summary:	Spice user manual refers to nonexistent feature "Arbitrary resolution"
Product:	Spice	Reporter:	dsjstc
Component:	win32 guest-tools	Assignee:	Spice Bug List <spice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	dsjstc
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows (All)
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i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description dsjstc 2017-02-25 20:22:16 UTC

As discussed in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93304, there is no support for automatically updating guest resolution to match the client window.  The user manual states that this functionality exists, under the name "Arbitrary Resolution".

Having come from VirtualBox, I expected this functionality, and spent a lot of time trying to figure it out before finding the linked bug.  

Please consider updating the user manual to 

1) Indicate that this feature does not work in modern versions of Windows, or perhaps at all, and

2) Please consider renaming the feature to something a little more meaningful.  I'd suggest "automatically resize virtual guest display".

Comment 1 dsjstc 2017-03-01 20:24:27 UTC

Update: at least partially my bad, it does work in Windows 10, but the documentation could be improved to prevent problems like mine.

1) Please add the documentation point:

In virt-manager's builtin viewer, the feature can be activated by selecting View->Scale Display->Auto-resize VM with Window.

2) Please rename the feature away from "Arbitrary Resolution", which is really a feature of the display driver and does not adequately describe the desired userland functionality.

Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2018-06-05 14:14:38 UTC

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