Graphical Console over-sized and uncontrollable

[TJ]

Binary package hint: virt-manager

Hardy 8.04.1 amd64
virt-manager: 0.5.3-0ubuntu10

When creating a new image using the wizard, installing from the hardy-desktop-amd64.iso to a 3.5GB image file, with the "OS Variant" set to "Ubuntu Hardy", the installation (from LiveCD desktop or directly via "Install.." at the boot menu, when the VM starts up and starts GDM the VNC graphical console window resizes to larger than the physical screen size of the host.

The VNC window cannot be scaled below 100% making top and bottom panels inaccessible. In addition, especially when the VNC toolbar is enabled, clicking on buttons or menu items causes the entire VNC window to jump higher or lower by about 120 pixels - making it impossible to control.

The host display is nvidia GeForce Go 7600 1280x800. The minimum size the VNC window will reduce to is 1298x843.

VNC *must* support scaling of the host window - whether it then scrolls the VM display or scales it is another matter.

[Evan (ev)]

I can confirm this as well in Jaunty (0.6.1-1ubuntu4). My screen resolution is 1024x768. Booting from a live CD in virt-manager creates a 1042x905 window without scroll bars, making full screen the only way of reasonably using the VNC window.

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

This is fixed in the virt-manager version that is in Lucid. It now supports window scaling.