Re: Strange behavior by qemu and the VM console.

[Philipp Ammann]

Hi George,

did you recently upgrade your DE or mess with your DPI settings?

In the GTK window, there's an option "zoom to fit" (or similar, I don't
have it in front of me ATM). Make sure that is disabled.

Best regards
Philipp


Am 20.01.21 um 20:45 schrieb George R Goffe:
> Hi,
> 
> This system is a Fedora Core 34 x86_64 (Rawhide) at "latest" upgrade levels.
> 
> qemu is: :qemu-5.2.0-4.fc34.x86_64
> 
> kernel is:  5.11.0-0.rc4.129.fc34.x86_64
> 
> I have had good success with qemu but since the more recent 5.10.x kernels, 
> qemus VM console has been sized much larger than the physical screen which 
> makes operations largely VERY difficult to accomplish. i.e., attempting to 
> install of FC34 .iso produces a console about twice as big as the physical 
> screen. All the buttons are at the lower right of the screen but most of the 
> "important" things are on the upper left.
> 
> Here's my current and unchanged qemu start script. I have tried -nographic 
> (no results, no console), -display curses , -display gtk (no change in 
> behavior), -g (not supported for the host)... I have tried boot parameters 
> "nomodeset" (my standard), and removing "nomodeset" with NO appreciable 
> change in behavior.
> 
> This radical change in behavior has come about fairly recently (past 2 weeks).
> 
> I'm sure there's something I've done... possibly by system upgrades of 
> packages but whatever it is is not at all obvious.
> 
> I'm stumped. Can  you folks help me please?
> 
> Best regards and STAY SAFE,
> 
> George...
> 
> 
> qemu-system-x86_64                                                           \
>       -cdrom /isos/Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-Rawhide-20210118.n.1.iso  
> \
>       -name fc34v                                                             
> \
>       -cpu host                                                               
> \
>       -enable-kvm                                                             
> \
>       -m 2g                                                                   
> \
>       -smp 2                                                                  
> \
>       -drive file=/export/home/var-lib-libvirt-images/fc34-bt.img,format=raw  
> \
>       -trace file=/root/qemu-trace-events                                     
> \
>       -boot menu=on,reboot-timeout=15
> 
> 
> 
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