Re: KVM usability

Daniel P. Berrange
2010-03-03T08:58:28Z

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 06:57:54PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 15:59 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >
> > > * desktop is 1024 x 720
> > >
> >
> > 1024x768 and this is what the default is today anyway.
> That was not my experience, as reported in my post a few days ago
> ("800x600 max resolution"), nor is it the experience reported in the
> message that kicked off this thread.
>
> I have been able to get a higher resolution, but it was far from
> automatic.

It depends on the guest OS version. QEMU exposes a cirrus logic card by
defualt, and given the lack of vsync/hsync info, the Xorg driver will
pick 800x600 as the default resolution in absence of any Xorg.conf About
6 months or so back, we got Xorg guys to add a code to the Xorg cirrus
driver that looked for the QEMU PCI subsystem ID and if found, defaults
to 1024x768 instead. Of course this is itself still far from optimal
as a user experiance. We really want it to be fully configured to any
resolution as easily as the user would do with a real graphics card &
monitor.

Regards,
Daniel
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