[fedora-virt] Guest resolution notabug?

[Dor Laor]

On 02/16/2010 09:46 PM, Kenni Lund wrote:
> 2010/2/16 Scott Dowdle<dowdle at montanalinux.org>:
>> KVM has some PCI pass-thru features but I'm not that familiar with them.  I believe that when used the device has to be dedicated to the VM... but I'm not sure.
>
> Yes, the whole card will get dedicated to the VM, so it can't be used
> by the host at the same time. Graphics cards are not supported at all
> by KVM and PCI passthrough requires IOMMU support in the chipset,
> which is still only available (and/or enabled) on very few
> motherboards.

KVM do support dev assignment of nic/hba )few) but not yet for graphics.

>
>> So while it feels like a bug to you, it is really just missing functionality in the virtual video cards offered by KVM/qemu today.  To the best of my knowledge it isn't specific to Fedora and applies to all distros using KVM.
>
> Correct, this is not Fedora (or KVM) specific, this is pure upstream QEMU.

Even Cirrus supply more than 1024*768, this might be a guest X issue.
Besides Cirrus you can start with -vga std to get more resolutions.

>
> Best Regards
> Kenni Lund
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