From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JdXIg-0003nd-Uv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:00:18 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JdXIc-0003i7-7g for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:00:18 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JdXIb-0003hz-U0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:00:13 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JdXIb-00066R-GE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:00:13 -0400 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JdXIQ-0002QV-Po for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:00:02 +0000 Received: from rrcs-71-41-149-67.sw.biz.rr.com ([71.41.149.67]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:00:02 +0000 Received: from cduffy by rrcs-71-41-149-67.sw.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:00:02 +0000 From: Charles Duffy Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:57:45 -0500 Message-ID: References: <31722c0c0803201052g467350d8yd57727b323a497e2@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <31722c0c0803201052g467350d8yd57727b323a497e2@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: gui application Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org You should not need to change the bootloader to modify your screen resolution for a graphical application. Simply modify the guest's X11 configuration to change the size, as you would were the system not a virtual machine. That said, unless you configure qemu to use the vmwarevga adapter (which isn't necessarily fully stable yet), only fairly standard resolutions are available; if you really intend to use 600x800 rather than the more standard 800x600, you may not be able to do that. One failproof approach would be to start an Xvnc instance in the guest, and connect to that using a VNC client; this way, you can configure the Xvnc instance to any arbitrary screen resolution you like. If you use tap-based networking and are virtualized rather than emulated, it should also be quite a bit faster than other approaches.