its in the first sentence. let me rephrase: the (windows) guest can select some screen resolution which SDL cannot provide. what happens is that qemu quits without giving the quest a chance to shut down. thats like having a monitor that crashes windows when it doesnt support the video mode.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1216368 Title: unsupported screen resolution crashes sdl-qemu Status in QEMU: New Bug description: if the (windows) guest sets a screen resolution that the SDL backend does not support, qemu does an exit(1). with this fix, the the resolution is still wrong (only part of the desktop is displayed), but qemu keeps running and the guest can auto-revert the video mode: ui/sdl.c:do_sdl_resize() SDL_Surface * tmp_screen; tmp_screen = SDL_SetVideoMode(width, height, bpp, flags); if (!tmp_screen) { // fprintf(stderr, "Could not open SDL display (%dx%dx%d): %s\n", width, // height, bpp, SDL_GetError()); // exit(1); } else { real_screen = tmp_screen; } To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1216368/+subscriptions
