windows7/8 in a gnome box

[Alexander Volovics]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 09:55:54PM -0300, "Germán A. Racca" wrote:

> On 06/09/2013 01:56 PM, Alexander Volovics wrote:

> >I wanted to test gnome-boxes on a fully updated fed19 beta.

> > Both Win7 and Win8 install without problems but I am unable
> > to enable 16:9 fullscreen (or any 16:9 screen).
> > For example 1600x900 does not appear in the Windows screen
> > resolution settings menu. (gnome-boxes 3.8.3)

> > In fed19 beta I also checked with kvm/qemu but the problem remains.

> I'm also able to use fullscreen in my F19beta vm.

What do you mean by 'fullscreen'.
My laptop has a 1600:900 screen. When I install Win7 in kvm-qemu
(or in a gnome-box) I can run the VM in fullscreen but NOT Win7. 

You have to adjust the screen resolution in Win7 and as Win7 only
sees a 'standard vga graphics adapter' you cannot get a 1600:900
resolution. The best you can do is 1680x1050 but this does not
"fill up" the 1600:900 screen. At the left and the right of the
win7 desktop there remain black stripes. 

If I install Ubuntu-13.04 in kvm-qemu or in a gnome-box Ubuntu has
the 'qxl' driver and I can run Ubuntu fullscreen with 1600:900 resolution.

I thought when looking up info with regard to Spice that there
was better graphics support for Windows but the documentation is
not clear and 'old'.

AV