Isn't the issue here that the emulated card has too low video memory forcing 800x600 when the driver selects the default 24bpp depth?
This is an issue with some very old real hardware too. I guess X could account for that but due to its architecture every driver would likely have a separate check for this condition (S3, cirrus, and any other driver that could be possibly used with such low- mem card). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237164 Title: kvm needs to correctly simulate a proper monitor Status in QEMU: Triaged Status in “kvm” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in “xorg” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: xorg With xserver-xor-video-cirrus 1.2.1, there should be no need to require special handling for kvm in dexconf any longer. See also: bug 193323. If kvm would properly simulate an attached monitor, we could drop the dexconf quirks. they are currently forcing the driver to use a 1024x768 display where the driver could autodetect the monitor correctly. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/237164/+subscriptions
