[fedora-virt] Guest resolution notabug?

[Tom Hughes]

On 16/02/10 00:35, Kenni Lund wrote:

> To archive what you want, eg. to have other resolutions in your VM,
> you can try emulate other graphics cards. You probably have a Cirrus
> Logic graphics card emulated in your VM now, try with some of the
> others, if I remember correctly "Standard VGA" or "Vesa" will allow
> you to use more (higher) resolutions.

You're quite correct that you need to use a different emulated graphics 
card to get higher resolutions, but even then you will (with a linux 
guest) need to write an xorg.conf by hand to get those modes as there is 
no emulated monitor to respond to DDC queries from X with a list of 
available resolutions so it defaults to only allowing a couple of low 
resolution modes.

Windows guests do seem to allow a wider choice of resolutions by default 
when there is no monitor available to respond to DDC queries.

Tom

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