Re: Extending VGA ram?

Avi Kivity
2007-09-24T15:01:27Z

Heinz Ulrich Stille wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'd like to use screen resolutions of 1920x1200 to 2560x1600 at 32bpp.
> So far I managed to raise the pixel limit, but not the memory size, and
> 8MB is a bit low for what I want. 1920x1200@24bpp works fine, but 32bpp
> results in a segfault. Increasing VGA_RAM_SIZE in qemu/vl.h doesn't help.
> What else does this depend on?
>
>

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.