Re: Qemu window size + windows XP resolution problem

[Andrew Walrond <andrew-2/QedQ4M3FBAfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org>]

On Tuesday 13 March 2007 08:06:51 Avi Kivity wrote:
> Andrew Walrond wrote:
> > Using v16 (including compiled modules) on a 2.6.20+ kernel, I installed
> > windows XP as per the howto, which works perfectly.
> >
> > I changed the windows screen resolution to 1280x1024x16 in the display
> > manager, which resized the qemu window and works fine. However, after
> > shutting down and restarting XP, the qemu window starts up at the
> > original size and I can only see the top quarter of the windows screen.
> >
> > Is this a known problem? Any way round it? I have found that resetting
> > the windows resolution fixes the problem, but it's a pain having to do
> > this every time.
>
> Strange.  Does this reproduce with stock qemu-0.9.0?

Don't know, but I'll try and report back.

>
> I have a couple of XP VMs with non-default resolutions, and they don't
> exhibit this.
>
> > Secondly, I have found that the mouse is sometimes not released to the X
> > desktop after the session ends , resulting in a frozen mouse. I got round
> > this by restarting a session, then ctrl-alt a couple to times to release
> > the mouse before exiting the session again.
>
> I've seen this with SDL-over-VNC.  What's your setup?  Distro, window
> manager, etc.?  Not that I know how to diagnose this, but maybe it will
> ring a bell for someone.

I'm using Kubuntu Feisty (x86_64) on a Core 2 dell laptop , kvm built with SDL 
support. 

Andrew

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