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Re: [Qemu-devel] emulating a display, instead of just a dumb graphics ca
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Markus Armbruster |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] emulating a display, instead of just a dumb graphics card |
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Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:57:03 +0100 |
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Olaf Hering <address@hidden> writes:
> Right now qemu does appearently just emulate a graphics card (Cirrus for
> example), but not an attached monitor/display. The result is confusion
> in the guest OS.
>
> The current DRM drivers in upstream Linux seem to default to VESA modes.
> These are either provided by qemu, or Xorg uses a fixed internal list.
> As a result the VM window is 1280x960. Much too large for my native
> display.
>
> It seems qemu does not provide a virtual display with valid EDID data.
> If it would start doing that, the host admin could force a certain
> display size. Ideally also with proper DPI data.
>
> Any idea if thats possible to implement?
Not an expert in this area, but I can't see why it would be impossible.
Patches welcome.