On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 04:48 +0200, Dennis J. wrote: > On 04/30/2009 09:52 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 21:46 +0200, Dennis J. wrote: > >> Hi, > >> Where did the monitor configuration go in f11? I've booted a virtualized > >> instance of F11 using kvm but can only get a maximum resolution of 800x600. > >> The monitor is displayed as "unknown" and there seems to be no way to > >> select one (like for example a generic 1280x1024 one). > >> I'm also running an instance of WinXP using kvm and there I get higher > >> resolutions out of the box. > > > > What X driver do you end up using? What does the X log look like? > > > > There's a hack in the cirrus driver to detect when we're running under > > kvm, but naturally it only works if you're running a sufficiently new > > kvm. There is no equivalent hack in the vesa driver, but there > > certainly could be. > > I just rebuilt the latest f11 qemu/kvm for my f10 host system and now I can > get to 1024x768x24 or 1280x1027x16 but not higher. Right, like I said: the KVM in the host needs to be sufficiently new to expose the hint to the guest that it's a virtualized device. > According to the log the cirrus "card" is only equipped with 4mb of video ram. > Could this be a limiting factor? 4mb seems to be a rather low amount of ram > these days for a video card. It is, but that's what you get for emulating a cirrus chip. It's just not that capable of a design. kvm -std-vga will get you a plain vesa device that should be able to do some higher resolutions, but without any particularly good autoconfiguration hacks. There's also some work being done upstream to get a more capable video device into qemu. - ajax
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