Control: tag -1 + confirmed
16.08.2012 22:30, Romain Francoise wrote:
Package: vgabios
Version: 0.7a-3
Severity: normal
Windows 8 in KVM using the 'std' vga driver doesn't offer any resolution
other than 1024x768, unlike Windows 7 which supports larger resolutions up
to 2560x1600.
Applying the following patch to vgabios fixes the issue for me:
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-05/msg00260.html
(However, the patch may not be suitable for inclusion, I didn't test the
effects it has on other guests.)
Hello.
Yesterday I uploaded a new version of qemu to unstable (1.7.0+dfsg-2) which
switched from bochs vgabios to seavgabios, -- vga bios implementation
which is part of seabios package.
With this change, windows8 guest can change resolutions with -vga std just
fine. Seavgabios is missing some popular resolutions (such as 1920x1024),
which hopefully will be fixed in the next seabios update, but it is anyway
much better than what we currently have with vgabios.
If this change will not have really bad effects (and I really hope it wont),
vgabios will not be used with qemu anymore.
That's JFYI, I'm not saying there's no bug in vgabios (and adding `confirmed'
tag while at it).
Besides, there's one prob with the patch you pointed to. It is a part of a
larger patchset, all of which should be applied, not just one change (because
this one change is based on previous changes). However, vgabios in xen is,
for some reason, quite a bit different from what we have in debian, so this
patchset does not apply and needs some tweaking. But I don't know enough of
vgabios internals to be able to tweak it easily.
Thanks,
/mjt
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