Re: Extending VGA ram?

Avi Kivity
2007-09-24T15:56:45Z

Heinz Ulrich Stille wrote:
> On Monday 24 September 2007, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> You'll need to emulate a card that supports these resolutions. I don't
>> think cirrus does. The vmware vga display in qemu-cvs probably does,
>> but it hasn't been ported to kvm yet. You might try that.
>>
>
> I use Windows XP on std-vga. I tried hacking vgabios to report higher
> resolutions and memory, but that doesn't seem to make any difference.
> Windows lists 32bpp even if memory is insufficient for that.
> So where is the catch? Would it be possible to make std vga support
> large resolutions without too much effort?
>
>

I don't really know. The vga bios, qemu device model, memory size, and
guest driver all have to cooperate for this to work.